According to a recent poll, 61% of Israelis view Trump positively. But not the hardcore lefties like this guy.<\/p>\n
Larry Derfner writes<\/a>: In the 31 years I’ve lived in Israel, I’ve never voted in a U.S. election \u2013 mainly because I have a problem voting in a country where I don’t live anymore, especially when the one I do live in makes such a big issue of telling outsiders to stay out of its business. Also, I would be voting in California, which is by now so solidly Democratic that my vote would just be sending coals to Newcastle.\u00a0 According to a recent poll, 61% of Israelis view Trump positively. But not the hardcore lefties like this guy. Larry Derfner writes: In the 31 years I’ve lived in Israel, I’ve never voted in a U.S. election \u2013 mainly because … Continue reading
\nBut if Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination as expected, I’m going to vote in the November election. Because he is in an entirely different category from any Republican leader I ever opposed, including Nixon, Reagan and George W. Bush. No need to explain why; his story is being written every day, and it’s all too unmistakably clear.\u00a0
\nBut I want to point out a few things about Trump, any one of which would have hobbled or destroyed the candidacy of a normal American politician, but which have been swallowed up and forgotten in the daily cascade of new moral atrocities he produces. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0
\n1. The news is that Trump got the endorsement of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, and that he won\u2019t renounce it. What\u2019s forgotten is that\u00a0his father, Fred Trump, the formative influence in his life, his mentor and benefactor, was arrested at age 21 during a KKK \u00a0brawl with New York police.\u00a0The roots of the younger Trump’s racism run very deep.\u00a0
\n2. In the 1970s, by which time Trump had taken over his father\u2019s New York real estate business, the Justice Department sued his company for refusing to rent to black tenants. Despite an out-of-court agreement to end the practice, three years later, the Justice Department charged the Trump Organization with continuing its exclusionary policy: \u201c[R]acially discriminatory conduct by Trump agents has occurred with such frequency that it has created a substantial impediment to the full enjoyment of equal opportunity,\u201d the Justice Department declared. \u00a0
\n3. Before running for president, Trump\u2019s political renown came mainly from his leading role in the \u201cbirther\u201d movement \u2013 the bunch that deny Obama\u2019s right to be president because they claim he wasn\u2019t born in America, but in Kenya. The movement is built on white racism, Islamophobia and ultra-nationalism, all staples of Trump\u2019s appeal. \u00a0\u00a0
\n4. Last July, when Republican Senator John McCain slammed him for \u201cfiring up the crazies\u201d in the party, Trump belittled McCain for having been a POW during the Vietnam War. “He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren\u2019t captured,” Trump told an Iowa audience. Trump didn\u2019t only denigrate McCain with that remark \u2013 he denigrated all POWs. Trump himself ducked the Vietnam War with a series of college and medical deferments, which hadn\u2019t stopped him from being a self-described \u201cstar athlete\u201d in high school. This is the individual who\u2019s going to \u201cmake America great again,\u201d whose fanatical supporters chant \u201cU-S-A! U-S-A!\u201d at his rallies.\u00a0
\nThere\u2019s never been an American presidential candidate remotely like him. And the worse he is, the better he does.\u00a0
\nSo this year\u2019s U.S. election will be to other U.S. elections like World War II was to other wars – truly a battle of good vs. evil, a holy war, a war for survival. And I believe it’s not enough to beat Trump \u2013 his candidacy and everything it stands for has to be utterly destroyed, obliterated, left in smoking ruins. America must violently cast him out. It must write in the sky, “This is not us.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"