{"id":89773,"date":"2016-03-13T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89773"},"modified":"2016-03-13T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:18:05","slug":"how-donald-trump-scared-the-jews-won-the-election-and-saved-israel-this-is-no-purim-spiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=89773","title":{"rendered":"How Donald Trump Scared the Jews, Won the Election \u2014 and Saved Israel (This Is No Purim Spiel!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hatred and bigotry is not the exclusive domain of gentiles but you won’t get that commonsense in this hysteria<\/a> from Chaim Shalev, for whom Jews are always victims and goyim who believe they have group interests are nasty:<\/p>\n

The campaign was even harsher than anyone had predicted. After being told by his advisers that there simply wasn\u2019t enough time to win over enough African, Hispanic or Asian Americans, Donald Trump went for broke, in an effort to secure the 72% of the white vote that he would need in order to stand a chance of winning the ballot in November. \u201cThe War of the Races,\u201d was how some pundits described it.
\nTrump did not play his race cards openly, though some viewed his ambiguous statements as stoking the flames. When he changed his famous slogan to \u201cMaking the Real America Really Great Again,\u201d minority leaders said they sensed a threat. When he dismissed the sporadic violence that broke out in Alabama between white supremacists and African Americans as \u201ca legit argument,\u201d liberal newspapers were nothing less than outraged. When a New Mexico mob attacked a family of illegal immigrants, Trump said that would no longer happen once the wall went up and \u201cMexico paid for it.\u201d He used the same tactic when a series of mosques were burned in cities across America, saying that tempers would cool off once the temporary freeze on allowing Muslims to enter the United States as well as the partial ban on Muslim travel between states without a special permit would go into effect.
\nMost American Jews tried to steer clear of the whole meshugas. They gravitated almost by default towards the Democrats, but didn\u2019t feel the urge to stand out among the many liberal leaders as well as prominent Christian clergymen protesting the increasingly ugly atmosphere of the campaign. Some of the rhetoric on the radical left, which often included incitement against whites as well as anti-Israel propaganda, made them feel no less uncomfortable than the vitriol emanating from the right.
\nBut then reports started to appear of Trump rallies in which Stars of David were painted alongside the Muslim crescent on placards, with big exes on both.
\n\u201cI didn\u2019t see anything of the sort, you reporters are such liars,\u201d Trump said, even when shown several anti-Jewish signs being waved right under his eyes in a mass meeting in Cincinnati. Confronted at a press conference in late September with several flyers containing caricatures of George Soros, Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson as the three wise monkeys, which had been handed out at the entrance to his Chicago event, Trump blew his top. \u201cAnd how many of you are Jews anyway?\u201d he asked the shocked reporters. \u201cLet\u2019s see a show of hands here, c\u2019mon folks,\u201d he said, adding his punch line after a short pause, \u201cbecause if you don\u2019t we can always pull down your pants and find out.\u201d The crowd that had been invited to serve as Trump\u2019s audience burst out in appreciative laughter.
\nThings then went from bad to worse. Ultra-Orthodox supporters of Trump, who were persuaded by Rick Perry that Trump meant well for religious people everywhere, were driven out of a GOP meeting near Albany, accompanied by curses, shoves and several people waving their right hands in what seemed like Nazi salutes. Then Trump\u2019s running mate told a frenzied crowd in El Paso that \u201cBloooomental and Schoooooomer\u201d were ganging up on Trump to prevent America being great again \u201cbecause the New York establishment wants to suck us dry.\u201d Finally, asked to respond to a New York Times report about the hundred of millions of dollars that had been reportedly pouring in to Democratic coffers from distressed Jewish donors, Trump said: \u201cThe Jews don\u2019t give me money because they know I can\u2019t be bought. So they\u2019re doing everything they can to destroy me. We\u2019ll see how to deal with this thing once I\u2019m in office, but I promise you, it won\u2019t be pleasant.\u201d
\nTrump was lambasted by all the major news outlets, and even Fox News said his statement was \u201csuperfluous and inflammatory.\u201d The Republican candidate\u2019s campaign advisers were close to hysteria, convinced that such an incendiary statement, coming less than 72 hours before the polls opened, could doom the New York billionaire\u2019s bid for the White House. On Election Day, Jews indeed joined Hispanics and African Americans in breaking all known records for voter participation, but so did white Americans all across the country. Trump was trounced in major blue states such as California, New York and New Jersey, but he received over 80% of the white vote in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, and won the elections with a handy majority in both popular and electoral votes.
\nHe asked Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio to accompany him to his inauguration and refused to rescind the invitations to the inaugural ball that his advisers claimed had been sent \u201cby mistake\u201d to David Duke and several other white supremacists. Pat Buchanan, Trump\u2019s transition team announced, would serve as \u201cspecial White House adviser.\u201d
\nThis is when Jewish panic went into overdrive. Though the overwhelming majority said that Trump would probably moderate himself and \u201cwhere would we go anyway,\u201d others, especially on the liberal left, were swept away in the general hysteria that gripped most Democrats. \u201cOur complacency is like that of Jews in Germany in the 1930s\u201d one distressed Jewish leader told a dumbfounded Chuck Todd on Meet the Press. \u201cWhen our grandparents comforted themselves after Hitler and the Nazis came to power by asking \u2018what\u2019s the worst that could happen?\u2019 Todd wanted to follow up, but the words seemed to stick in his throat so he frantically signaled to go to commercial break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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