{"id":95466,"date":"2016-05-10T04:41:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95466"},"modified":"2016-05-10T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T14:54:44","slug":"jamie-weinstein-thought-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=95466","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Weinstein – Thought Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article is hilarious. Jamie Weinstein<\/a> is a thought leader? Who exactly does he lead? Who does he influence? Whatever stature he has seems to have been bought by his parents. <\/p>\n

All these so-called Jewish conservatives opposed to Trump show that they were never conservatives. They simply used the conservative movement to advance the interests of Israel. <\/p>\n

This article vastly understates Trump’s Jewish support. It’s from common Jews, not the Jewish elites. Do you really think regular Jews want more Muslims, more Mexicans and more Africans in America? I don’t think so. <\/p>\n

I think it is great that these so-called Jewish conservative who refuse to vote for Trump have been unable to stop his nomination and have been unable to throw Trump supporters out of the conservative movement. Instead, they’re getting left behind by America’s newfound nationalism. Good riddance to them!<\/p>\n

This article is about 80% anti-Trump and yet there is much Jewish support for Trump, including among intellectuals. Jews were among the first to board the Trump bandwagon<\/a>. Loren Feldman and Mike Cernovich were early Trump boosters. Trump’s campaign has always included Jews as his closest advisers. The Jewish role in Trump’s rise is an article yet to be written. <\/p>\n

Trump has spent most of his life in New York and he knows the Jews, likes the Jews and they tend to like him. <\/p>\n

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Jared Sichel writes for the Jewish Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Faced with Donald Trump as his party\u2019s presumptive nominee in this year\u2019s presidential election, Jamie Weinstein, senior editor for the conservative Daily Caller website, said he may have to \u201ctake a Tums\u201d and vote for Hillary Clinton \u2014 assuming Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee and there\u2019s no third-party conservative alternative.
\n\u201cGiven that you have to vote, and my options are only Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, that\u2019s what I\u2019m left to choose from,\u201d Weinstein said in a recent interview. \u201cAnd I think Donald Trump is a threat to the American system, whereas Clinton is a threat to our economic wellbeing for four years.\u201d
\nWeinstein, like many Jewish thought-leaders in the conservative world, says he not only will not support the inevitable Republican nominee \u2014 he would prefer another four years of a Democrat in the White House if Trump is the only alternative. And this is not only because of the danger he believes Trump poses to America; he also sees Trump as a long-term threat to conservatism and fears the movement may not recover from a Trump presidency.
\nAmong Jewish #NeverTrump-ers are some of the most prominent voices of conservatism: Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard; Jonah Goldberg, senior editor for the National Review (the magazine ran an entire anti-Trump issue in February); Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby; Ben Shapiro, editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire; nationally syndicated talk-show host Mark Levin; Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin; Elliot Abrams, a former George W. Bush adviser and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); Max Boot, also a CFR fellow and a former John McCain adviser; John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine; Seth Mandel of the New York Post; Bethany Mandel, senior contributor at The Federalist; David Bernstein and Ilya Somin, both law professors at George Mason University and both also writers for the Washington Post\u2019s \u201cThe Volokh Conspiracy\u201d blog, run by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh; and Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University and also a Volokh blogger…<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is every horrifying stereotype of Republicans that those of us who are actually Republican have been fighting against for years,\u201d Bethany Mandel said. \u201cHe\u2019s already destroying all of that work, but he will likely do irreparable damage to the brand.\u201d
\nMandel, who lives in New Jersey, said she was particularly turned off by two of Trump\u2019s antics. The first was when he told CNN\u2019s Don Lemon in August that Fox News host Megyn Kelly had \u201cblood coming out of her wherever,\u201d in describing Kelly\u2019s performance during a Republican debate in which she challenged Trump about past misogynist comments. The second was at a November rally when Trump mocked and imitated the disability of New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, who has a congenital joint disorder.
\nShapiro had his own decisive #NeverTrump moment: \u201cThe point where I said, categorically, I will never vote for this human being was when he refused to denounce the KKK on national television two days before the Louisiana primary,\u201d said Shapiro, who supported Senator Ted Cruz. \u201cHe panders to legitimately the worst elements in American life.\u201d<\/p>\n

…Trump supporters include some prominent people, such as billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, New York Congressman Lee Zeldin and nationally syndicated talk-show host and Jewish Journal columnist Dennis Prager. The Republican Jewish Coalition also came out in favor of the presumptive candidate, issuing a statement on May 4 congratulating Trump after Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich suspended their campaigns, saying Clinton \u201cis the worst possible choice for a commander in chief.\u201d<\/p>\n

…Radio commentator and Jewish Journal columnist Dennis Prager has, since early in the nomination process, opposed Trump, but said he would vote for him if he became the nominee. \u201cI said from the outset that if my darkest dreams were realized, and he became the Republican nominee, I would vote for him,\u201d Prager wrote in an email. \u201cThe reason is that there is one thing that frightens me more than Donald Trump being elected president, and that is Hillary Clinton being elected president.\u201d
\nHe said Trump\u2019s behavior and positions made him unsure \u201calmost every day\u201d whether he could maintain that position. Asked what Trump would have to do to lose his vote, Prager said, \u201cHe tries almost every day.\u201d
\nAmong the many distinctions Prager sees between a Trump presidency and a Clinton presidency: the Supreme Court, natural gas extraction (known as \u201cfracking,\u201d which Clinton has come out hard against during her campaign against Bernie Sanders), and, as he said, \u201cAn ever-expanding government taking over more and more of the American economy.\u201d
\nPrager fears Clinton appointments to the Supreme Court could, for a generation, allow judges to \u201cuse the court to pass laws\u201d otherwise not achievable with a Republican-controlled Congress or White House. Asked to respond to #NeverTrump conservatives\u2019 fear that Trump is redefining\u2014or has already redefined the Republican Party\u2014Prager said that will only happen if he \u201csucceeds as president, and doesn\u2019t do so by adopting conservative policies.\u201d
\n\u201cThen he may indeed redefine Republican and conservative,\u201d Prager said. \u201cI\u2019ll worry about that then. And if he fails, he will give new impetus to the traditional understanding of Republican and conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n

…What put Weinstein, the Daily Caller editor, over the edge was an incident in which Michelle Fields, Weinstein\u2019s girlfriend and a former Breitbart reporter, was grabbed at a Trump event by campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as she tried to approach Trump to ask him a question. A Florida prosecutor charged Lewandowski with battery, and then later dropped the charges, but eyewitnesses corroborated Fields\u2019 account, along with audio and video footage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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