The continuing war against the right
[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin.”]
The left would like Jews to believe it’s the right they have to fear:
As director of Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization who also taught at the International Institute for Counterterrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Hoffman’s message to worried American Jews is that they’re not scared enough. What Hoffman is trying to do is to scare American Jews into believing that Trump supporters—meaning roughly 75 million Americans, or half of the electorate—are domestic terrorists and violent white supremacists. Worst of all, according to Hoffman, is that there’s not much to be done to stop them. He recommended a service that will scrub your information from the internet. Otherwise, if the red-baseball-cap-wearing hordes come for you, you’re on your own.
Antisemitic extremists are real, and they live on both the left and the right. It was a white supremacist who killed 11 people at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018. Indeed, white supremacism and right-wing antisemitism, from the Ku Klux Klan to Charles Lindbergh, are deeply embedded in American history, even if by now we’d hoped to transcend them. But are they more dangerous today than ever before in American history? It may seem so, but only if you are ignorant of that history—or pursuing an agenda that threatens to endanger American Jews, rather than protect them from harm.
So why is a man who has researched terrorism for more than four decades and worked at the higher levels of the American national security apparatus telling the Jewish community that they are helpless against millions of their own fellow citizens, who should now in fact be considered their enemies? Because Hoffman is messaging on behalf of a shameful and deeply un-American push by the Biden administration to criminalize the regime’s political opponents—an initiative in which Jews are being positioned as, and told they are hopeless to avoid being, targets.
Jews, of course, are a very small part of this, because their numbers are tiny. On the other hand, those numbers tend to include some major Democratic donors. In addition, the left is afraid that various ethnic groups whose vote they’ve long counted on – in particular, Hispanics and even a small percentage of black people – are starting to leave the fold as the party moves further to the left. The Democratic leadership relies on fear in an effort to keep them in line, and this appeal to Jews is part of this.
Remember back in August of 2012, when none other than then-VP Joe Biden addressed a crowd composed mainly of black people this way?:
Biden told more than 800 ticketed supporters that Romney wants to repeal the financial regulations enacted after the Wall Street crash of 2008. “He’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street!” Biden said. Then he added, “They’re going to put you all back in chains” with their economic and regulatory policies.
That was when the mild-mannered Romney was running.
the more Jewishly committed the more likely a Trump supporter.
All the Jewish neighborhoods in NYC voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
Biden voters tend to be twice a year Jews who unlike Trump don’t have Jewish grandchildren, or in Blinky or Klain or Schiff’s case Jewish children.
How anyone Jewish could think that the party of Ilhan Omar isn’t antisemitic baffles me.
Indeed, white supremacism and right-wing antisemitism, from the Ku Klux Klan to Charles Lindbergh, are deeply embedded in American history,
The 2d incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915, had a five digit membership in 1919, had a seven digit membership in 1922, and had a five-digit membership in 1935. Lindbergh was a Germanophile isolationist whose private correspondence indicates he bought into social fantasies about a ‘Jewish problem’, but not the violent Nazi variant. He was a vigorous proponent of the America First Committee, and organization which existed for all of 13 months; he sought to return to active duty after Pearl Harbor and was refused by the President, so worked for aircraft manufacturers during the war. A fad organization that was consequential for about a decade and a brief tour in political agitation by a prominent public figure who largely kept his social fantasies to himself is not what is meant by ‘deeply embedded’. You had restrictive covenants on real estate which had an impact on Jewish buyers; the restrictive covenant appeared around 1910 in the mid-Atlantic states and was rendered a dead letter by court decisions ca. 1948. That’s not an indicator of anything deeply embedded.
Biden voters tend to be twice a year Jews who unlike Trump don’t have Jewish grandchildren, or in Blinky or Klain or Schiff’s case Jewish children.
Agreed. The marks for this propaganda are an urban bourgeois population whose Jewishness is in substance several generations of residence in large coastal metropolitan globs and a long family history of alienation from the indicia and idioms of Christian culture. The bubbleworld phenomenon among professional-managerial types can be so impenetrable, they’ll likely have some success.
Avi got it right. And so did Alan.
And, people who are ethnically Jewish are a yuuuuuuuuge part of this leftist administration. Some examples, in no particular order:
Deputy Health Secretary, Four Star Admiral Rachel Levine
US Special Representative for Iran Robert Malley
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain
Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky
US Attorney General Merrick Garland
Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Ruth Sherman
Science and Technology Adviser Eric Lander
Deputy National Security Advisor Ann Neuberger
Deputy CIA Director David Cohen
Vice President’s Husband Doug Emhoff
The self-imposed ignorance of the American Jewish community about the virulent & fundamental antisemitism of the Left is difficult if not impossible to penetrate. Probably, the reason is that for many decades now, much of the Ashkenazi Jewish community desperately wished that it was not so, because they were so deeply involved in the Marxist-Leninist Left & hoped it would be an escape from history for them.
In the history of the Left, from Pierre Joseph Proudhon, antisemitism infects the state socialists & the anarchists. From Mikhail Bakunin, it later infects Anarchism. And, from Karl Marx, himself the grandson of rabbis on his mother’s & father’s side, it moves into Marxism (if you’re in a hurry, just read part II — https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/).
The Soviet Union destroyed Jewish culture & the Jewish faith everywhere it laid its heavy hand. It wasn’t a Holocaust in that the USSR didn’t kill Jews because they were Jews, as did Nazism (there were Jewish martyrs for the faith in the USSR, for sure, but not in the numbers under Nazism, which sought the complete extermination of the Jewish people). But, the Soviet Union destroyed Jewish culture as successfully as did the Nazis. Sadly, too many Ashkenazi Jews were complicit in this cultural destruction both inside & outside the Soviet Union (see, e.g. Timothy Snyder’s “Bloodlands”, where he states that in 1932 fully 40% of the NKVD/OGPU was Jewish).
The major problem here is that Hoffman’s lying.
But he’s an “expert” and his so-called expertise would ordinarily demand respect.
Another major problem here is that he’s speaking, in all to many cases, to the converted.
But Lee Smith warns that Hoffman is peddling an obscene campaign of misinformation that is merely the continuation of that slick, cunning, convoluted Clinton/Obama/CIA/FBI criminal plot to destroy Trump except it’s been broadened to now target all Americans who support Trump or who don’t support “Biden”—those “enemies of the people”; those “domestic terrorists”…
IOW, Hoffman’s pushing all those sensitive buttons in a dishonest, manipulative campaign to persuade the American Jewish Community to help “Biden” destroy America under the guise of helping “him” to ostensibly protect it from its Trumpian enemies, who are characterized as the country’s true enemies.
Smith’s attempt to warn them of this deceitful ploy, to persuade them that this is in fact a sweeping disinformation effort, to walk them through the murky CIA/Obamian subterfuge, to implore them to open their eyes…is a herculean effort.
One wonders how he might ever succeed in convincing them…
Alan @4:44 p.m. says, “How anyone Jewish could think that the party of Ilhan Omar isn’t antisemitic baffles me.”
It’s also the party of the black Nation of Islam. There’s a professor at San Francisco State University who claims “that the U.S. government and the Jews are using marijuana to make black men gay. The ‘Pot Plot’ is a popular theory in Muhammad’s Nation of Islam cult. At the Saviours Day Convention in Chicago, an official Nation of Islam event, Wesley Muhammad claimed that, ‘It is Jewish genius that has helped… to weaponize the weed so that it may effeminize the black male of America. And be clear, it is Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam that is standing in between the total demasculinization of the black man in America.’ . . . . Wesley Muhammad’s bio at the taxpayer-funded university notes that he is a lecturer in the Africana Studies Department of SFSU’s College of Ethnic Studies. . . . Muhammad also claims that ‘we’ve documented the first area codes that were devastated by coronavirus in America were Jewish area codes’ implying that the virus was aimed by Allah at the Jews.”
http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2021/11/san-francisco-state-university-prof.html
The Nation of Islam differs considerably from mainstream Islam in its beliefs, but it does have a history of antisemitism.
@PA+Cat,
“The Nation of Islam differs considerably from mainstream Islam in its beliefs, but it does have a history of antisemitism.”
Oh, antisemitism is just touching the surface of The Nation’s whackjobbery. I mean, antisemitism has a long & hoary history in the West (I mean, Voltaire & T.S. Eliot, after all!).
But the NoI believes that white people were invented by a Mad Scientist on the island of Patmos called Yakub. Yep, all us honkies are monsters just like in Frankenstein, except we got loose to bedevil black people! Here’s a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam)
For a couple years I drove to an NLP retreat with a Jewish/Christian friend from my prog Episcopalian congregation. She was a thoughtful person. She had had a conversion experience to Christianity, but she kept her Jewish roots, so she also attended a liberal synagogue on some ecumenical basis I didn’t understand.
This was in the years after 9-11 and I was conservative. We would talk about Israel and Palestine and always wind up in disagreement.
Her point was that Israel was not blameless in the conflict, which I can understand. However, she seemed to never accept that coexistence was not a real option for Israel with Palestine, Palestine will kept attacking until Israel is pushed into the sea, so being critical of Israel doesn’t solve anything.
That’s not entirely correct either. Her position was close to Christian or Ghandian pacifism. Or maybe Tikkun Olam — acting to make the world whole. In any event the proper course seemed to be moral perfection, never mind if you’re in a knife fight.
Young Hegelian–
I’ve been aware for some time of the NOI’s looney-tune ideas. The NOI also believes that UFOs will appear when the world ends. Makes you wonder what race/color Muhammad thinks space aliens belong to– green for pot, maybe. It did surprise me that he’d criticize pot as a feminizing drug in San Francisco, of all places.
Alan Colbo (4:44 pm) said: “How anyone Jewish could think that the party of Ilhan Omar isn’t antisemitic baffles me.”
It’s a continuing pattern. When I was a boy, Jews clung to the Democrat Party then even more than they do now. Back then, the Democrats tolerated — welcomed! as part of a coalition — in their political midst southern Democrats (who in 1948 even splintered into the “Dixiecrats” as a strident segregationist faction): many, many of whom were anti-Jewish and anti-black, and who were tolerant of, if not even friendly with, the Klan.
YoungHegelian:
Please see this for the choices that faced the Jews of Russia.
@PA+Cat,
“I’ve been aware for some time of the NOI’s looney-tune ideas.”
I’m glad you are, but clearly some important personages didn’t get the memo, such as Pres. Bill Clinton, seated right next to Rev. Farrakhan (https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/aretha-franklins-funeral-views-from-inside-the-church-718394/).
Imagine what would happen if Trump ended up seated at a public event next to David Duke!
Problem is that all too many traditional supporters of the Democratic Party—not only Jews—don’t seem to have understood, or to be able to understand, or to want to understand (so saturated are they by the continual hatred the Democratic Party and its allies, ESPECIALLY those in the media, have been for decades fomenting against the GOP) just what that party has become since 2008.
Some have observed events and have been able to put 2 and 2 together, even surprising themselves by their own change in attitudes.
Others have, as yet, not been able to do so….
Related:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/they-have-lost-control-michael-snyder-warns-our-destination-economic-collapse
@neo,
“Please see this for the choices that faced the Jews of Russia.”
Oh, trust me, I’m not intending to let any aspect of Russian culture including the White counter-revolutionaries, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Tsarist regime off the hook for their profound antisemitism.
I understand perfectly well why Russian Jews sided with the Bolsheviks. Sometimes in politics, however, both choices turn out to be evil, and however understandable the evil chosen may be in context, at some point in later history, good conscience requires that a community sifts through why those choices were made and how they bred their own unintended evils.
That sifting has yet to happen, a moral situation in which the Ashkenazi Jewish community joins literally dozens of other ethnic/national communities around the world (e.g. the Japanese for their behavior in WWII, the Indian independence movement & the Irish for their support of the Axis powers against Great Britain in WWII). It’s not an easy thing to do.
Ayn Rand (Alissa Rosenbaum), Ludwig von Mises, Hayek, Rothbard . . . the list goes on. To paraphrase the old joke about the Irish from the Gangs of New York era: if it weren’t for the Jews there’d be no modern libertarian movement; and if it weren’t for the Jews, we wouldn’t need one.
Bingo YoungHegelian.
And always with the excuses. Choices shmoyces. Equal Cop-out Rights for all, then please.
I don’t think Jews in general have much to fear from the Right. It’s a bit of a stretch to be the eternal victim when you’re occupying very disproportionately so much of the heights of Government, Media, Finance, and the Law… Let alone the Commentariat.
Come to think of it, the extreme hard core Right could probably be bought off with a readjustment of the affirmative action racial quotas to limit Jewish participation in any given X to their percentage of the population :D. I mean they worked so hard to implement it for the rest of us. Only fair. A small readjustment to US Foreign Policy such that the primary foreign policy objective of the USA wasn’t the preservation of tiny plucky nuclear armed 10,000 pound gorilla in the neighbourhood Israel might help, too. Israel is a great place and long may it prosper and show the rest us the way to build walls and what Neo quaintly refers to as ‘Bantustans’. I’m all for it. But I think that it ought not be necessary for all but the extreme racialist Left in US politics to have to go do obeisance at AIPAC. And they do. Just watch them all lined up.. plenty on YouTube. It’s sickening. These politicans are supposedly (I laugh) elected to represent the interests of their own people.
Jews *do* have plenty to fear from fanatical leftist Jews… and from the various Golems these sorts have imported and/or encouraged to wage war on the hated White middle and lower classes. Problem with the mud people is that every now and then they throw up their *own * demagogues. And it’s easy to guilt-trip the average Whitey.. worked like a charm since 45. Doesn’t work on the Blacks and the Hispanics, let alone anyone from Asia. They simply don’t give a rat’s ass about any of that.
Live and let live. But Police Your Own.
Plus something about the Sacklers in the vein of Cato the Elder ending any and all of his speeches.
the “Dixiecrats” as a strident segregationist faction): many, many of whom were anti-Jewish and anti-black
Don’t think white Southerners have ever been notable for a hostility to Jews.
To paraphrase the old joke about the Irish from the Gangs of New York era: if it weren’t for the Jews there’d be no modern libertarian movement; and if it weren’t for the Jews, we wouldn’t need one.
Whoever said that was being an idiot.
To be anti-republican means being pro-democrat. Which means, necessarily, being anti-israel even if Israel had never entered your mind. I don’t suppose it’s odd that so many–definition depending–Jews go along with it.
@Avi & others-
First, I believe the entire phenomenon is absolutely true- and so frightening– especially because the relative numbers of Jews is so tiny.
I am Jewish and a Conservative (much more centrist w/ most social issues) but my domestic politics have little to do with my religion. Internationally, support for Israel does affect my politics.
While I’ve definitely become more Conservative as I’ve gotten older, but I’ve always been puzzled by the monolithic Jewish vote devoted to the Democrat Party. I grew up in a very Jewish community that was rather affluent – as in large donations, the ones to throw big money raising receptions for Presidential candidates and the party. When I turned 18 I hadn’t a clue as to which party to register with, so I asked my parents and the answer was an automatic “Democrat.” But neither could explain why.
That was a very long time ago & I since corrected the error when I realized that policies I agreed with were most definitely not Democrat policies.
But now I have a little secret to share: both my father and I both realized we were much more Conservative than not. Centrist at most on certain social issues. But over the last 20 years, in particular, I’ve discovered that there are more Jewish Republicans I ever imagined. In my family. Amongst (some close friends) And amongst some very, very wealthy Jews I know or grew up with. But it is almost “in the closet.” You don’t talk politics until something slips and you figure out that there are those with opinions similar to your own. Of course, as the Democratic party has changed, more people have re-examined their allegiances, and policies that do not harm them. There are now many Israelis settled in So. Florida where I grew up and recently, when visiting, I overheard some people speaking Hebrew (I learned as a teen and retain a little) and I made a comment meant more as a mutter to myself. One woman turned to me and said, You’re one of us?” And then a whole group surrounded me so relieved to feel free to speak their minds.
That doesn’t mean I, and friends of mine, have not lost other friends, who upon hearing just that I might be Conservative (espec. during Trump years) I’ve been met with “I know you’re not stupid, but..” (We both attended the same rather elite university) but then I’ve been attacked and called a racist, and treated with absolute contempt- even hate. It never ceases to astonish me. Bright, well-educated, sensible, and heretofore reasonable people turn into veritable monsters. Even more interesting, it’s not over a specific policy difference. It’s just a kneejerk reaction. Upon visiting with a childhood friend and her family, I was greeted with “Ewww, You’re one of those?!” I just said yes, I am. No shame for me. It was amusing to me in one sense because I knew the people I had come with — who also were very close with these people (we actually go back to kindergarten, and without going into specific ages, it’s safe to say that is well over half a century!) were also Conservatives. We just moved on to different conversation.
I’m also from a design/ background and lived in NYC most of my adult life and you know what that means: any good friends and I long ago agreed to adhere to no politics at any time. As Neo says about herself pre-blogger and amongst old liberal friends, there is no room for discussion of policies, common sense, or variation depending on subject matter. Strictly black or white. I now live in a much more rural area in the mountains of North Carolina that is almost exclusively gentile, with Jews abounding in the summer resort season. We all pretty much get along– though there have been an occasion or two where I’ve literally walked away from a dinner table – reasonable discussion was pointless and it’s not worth ruining a nice dinner with arguments and stubborn insistence as to why you are so stupid. Here most are quite Conservative and it’s just more comfortable in general should anyone make a passing comment (” now they want to give $450,000 to illegal immigrants!”) And few are intimidated from chiming in. I think here it’s the Libs who watch what they say. But in the big cities it’s very different and the state has become purple, regardless of religion.
Well, actually, I should say regardless of policy or subject. The affiliation with political party for some has become a religion.
@CSimon:
That’s interesting. It’s complicated sure. Good if your types could make more noise or even better make war on the other kind.
Talking of the better sort of Conservative Armed to the Teeth Jews and the Carolinas. I just looked up the Diplomad’s Blog. Hadn’t shown up in my feed for a long time. Looks like he might have health problems. Hasn’t posted since June 20 and in that post mentions a trip to the MRI machine. Hope he’s OK.
CSimon: Nice reflection that I started reading but I have to confess that I gave up less than halfway because overly long paragraphs with no spacing are difficult to read.
@Meislin
“not only Jews—don’t seem to have understood, or to be able to understand, or to want to understand (so saturated are they by the continual hatred the Democratic Party and its allies, ESPECIALLY those in the media, have been for decades ”
You don’t have to mine much history to find Jews in the media who are, in essence and policy, anti-Semitic.
The Ochs and the Sulzbergers (publishers of the NY Times) have always been more concerned with being among the elite and listed in the Social Register, than present news even fair to policies to Jews.
The MSM: just look at NBC, CNN, MSNBC – from the top down: Jeff Shell (NBC) Jeff Zucker (CNN) to stars like Rachel Maddow….
It’s not an exclusive club but that “monolith” of Jewish Democrats produces new generations of the same:
(except for the ones who think for themselves and consider issues vs. inherited generational allegiance)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jewish+MSM+business+chiefs+2021&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
CSimon
agree, but the Sulzbergers like the Pulitzer’s are no longer Jewish in both practice and halacha
CSimon @8:23 p.m.:
I have a close friend who is a professor of sociology at a nearby state university who could tell the same story as yours chapter and verse. He considers himself a political conservative as well as an observant Conservative Jew (as do his wife and three grown kids), and I have had many long conversations with them about their social and professional difficulties in dealing with (my friend’s term) the Jewish addiction to the Democratic party line. So– now you know about another Jewish Republican family, this one in a very blue state. There must be some way y’all can network.
@Avi:
No True Scotsman, and all that.
But the as of now late and unlamented F W de Klerk who sold his own people down to perdition was still an Afrikaner.
@PA+Cat:
“There must be some way y’all can network.”
You’re right. And I think it would be a great idea for Conservative Jews to form associations, arm up, and make some lists.
What do they call Conservative White People who do that, though?
What I do know is that I was working US Army Intel in Germany in June of 1967 when the six day war broke out. I had a Jewish friend who had been contacted to see if he wanted to be attached at once to the Israeli military to help them and a couple of days later we were all put on a full alert, bags packed, guns issued and restricted to out work stations, mess hall and barracks ready to be sent out with a few hours notice. Kind of exciting and in our operations building we were keep track on large white boards of all sorts of intel including getting one of our spook Navy ships shot up by the Israeli Navy. We were rather pleased to be able to step down the next week and kind of pleased to be asked to go if needed. Most all of us had watch the movie Exodus and we knew which side we were on. I am not sure if many in the US knew how close the US military was to getting involved that that battle.
@Avi:
No True Scotsman, and all that.
But the as of now late and unlamented F W de Klerk who sold his own people down to perdition was still an Afrikaner.
not the ” No true Scotsman meme”
the sulzbergers are so gentile now after three generations that Hitler would welcome them into the wehrmacht.
the family that was Jewish during the Shoah may have been bad Jews , but the current ones are bad gentiles.
Know your halacha!
OldTexan —
I didn’t know that, and I like to think I’m fairly well acquainted with 20th century history.
@OldTexan:
In the spirit of the same folks who brought us that Second Gulf of Tonkin quality production…
Unfortunately for the Big Brains, the crew of the USS Liberty didn’t all die despite repeated attempts to finish them off and then they managed to get off some distress calls. So that False Flag attempt didn’t fly. And you didn’t get to get more involved. Hopefully LBJ and those in the know on both sides are boiling for eternity in a vat of excrement.
@Avi:
“Know your halacha!”
Only when it suits me, My Good Man!
Generally, I’d rather not. And nor would you if you could see the size of the average Hong Kong kitchen.
CSimon,
Yes, though the NYT owners, as others have pointed out, are certainly not the gold standard here. Neither are the others, but it chafes that so many intelligent people can be so utterly stupid. And worse, morally foolish.
(Actually, Maddow is not Jewish, at least that’s what I’ve read.)
My main problem is the question: How is it possible that so many have been able to feel—and, worse, EXPRESS—such demonization? Since when has it been acceptable for people to demonize their fellow—disagree with, certainly; despair of even despise, maybe; but demonize?—And this is especially true of Jews: Since when has it been acceptable for the latter to engage in demonization? What ever happened to collective memory? To purported values? (Though, I suppose this is why the “opponent” MUST BE branded as “Nazi”, or the equivalent: doing so opens the floodgates to anything and everything, which is essentially what has happened—what I’ve been labeling the “Palestinianization” of the Democratic Party. And so the first US president who has Jewish grandchildren gamboling around the WH is branded a Nazi, a racist…. This is what the professional prevaricators have been telling us; have been bombarding us with…and it’s been taken up with gusto and fervor by those who really ought to know better—cue Orwell—but not only)
Nor is the problem, it seems to me, support for Israel. For a US president, Israel should be a side issue. Important for several reasons, but peripheral.
The MAIN issue is supporting what’s good for the US. Israel may or may not be an issue for American Jews (or others); but supporting what’s good for the US MUST be the primary issue…and it seems to me that any US President that loves his country will also be supportive of the Jewish State whether as a matter of principle or real politique (or both). Not uncritical, necessarily, but generally supportive. I could of course be wrong about this, especially since the Cold War is over; nonetheless, geostrategic necessity has not evaporated—it’s evolved—and the US continues to need allies it can rely on. Since Obama, alas, the US is not even an ally to itself—something that has accelerated exponentially under “Biden”, i.e., Obama2.0 (“simply” because Trump’s surprise success in 2016 showed them clearly that there’s no time to waste in their goal to “transform” the country)—so how can the US possibly be a reliable ally of anyone else, or an ally at all, except of those who wish the US (along with the Little Satan”) ill?….
As for traditional support that Jews have for the Democrats, that’s historically perfectly understandable, or was, though much had to be ignored regarding Democratic Party behavior—and it was. Still, the party of FDR, of Truman, of JFK, even of LBJ (if not as much) but of Hubert Humphrey certainly, along with the values they purported to, and even sometimes did, uphold was seen as consonant with Jewish values; perhaps more importantly, the Republicans were viewed, rightly or wrongly as antagonistic, as less socially concerned. In retrospect, there should be a reassessment but at the time, it was absolutely clear. OTOH, my father, a tradition Democrat (what came to be known as a Scoop Jackson Democrat) could not bring himself to vote for McGovern in ’72 and his vote for Nixon shocked his mother to the core when she found out…. It should be noted that the current Democratic Party, with few exceptions would NOT be a welcoming place to any 20th-Century Democratic Party president (or candidate). Joe Lieberman felt he couldn’t remain, even if his allegiances are still leaning in that direction. Look at what is happening to Manchin and—even!!—Sinema. It’s simply a DIFFERENT party with the same name. It’s been perverted, or perhaps to be kinder, it has allowed itself to be perverted. The whole thing is utterly demoralizing, along with what has happened to a once great (if not without problems) American media…
YMMV.
Finally, regarding Jewish Republicans, there are a few prominent names that I know of (and many others I don’t): Dennis Prager, Mark Levin, the writers for the right-of-center journals—though exasperatingly inconsistent at times and not to everyone’s taste. I personally admire a blogger by the name of Ron Coleman. As far as I’m concerned all of these people are not only trying hard to save the country (along with their non-Jewish compatriots)—but also redeem their co-religionists.
To be sure, the people on the front lines, however, are the Conservative students at the universities and colleges, in particular the Jewish students who are trying to preserve some sense of equilibrium—of sanity—against, in all too many cases, overwhelming odds.
And so, on one foot….
Barry M. Seems as if the campus is the location for the pretty much constant, if not terribly violent, anti semitism.
I suspect some of The Kids have been fooled into thinking the Palestinians are the innocentest victims ever in history. And for others, they’re an excuse. If it weren’t the Paleostinians (h/t Rantburg), it would be something else.
I do Presbyterian, not the most lib of the Christian folks, but they’re getting there. Generally good people. But the HQ is pretty far out. And, from time to time, you can’t believe your ears. Talking about Waco…one very nice church lady said, grimly, “They were a cult!”.
The good folks are the ones doing the work…Meals on Wheels, working with a shelter for trafficked women, that sort of thing.
You will not be surprised to find that concern about anti-Asian hate crimes surged when the Great White Defendant shot up a massage parlor. Hasn’t been a word since. That’s not surprising, either. Asians are on their own again.
I’ve said, facetiously–not because I think I exaggerate but because it’s so unlikely based on general understanding–that it will funny/sad when Jews find their safe spaces are in Baptist churches and NASCAR events.
I have no doubt that your last line is true. One hopes that it won’t have to come to that, though.
In my post The Phobia(s) That May Destroy America, I said:
“I am continually dismayed by the level of fear, contempt, and anger that many educated/urban/upper-middle-class people demonstrate toward Christians and rural people (especially southerners). This complex of negative emotions often greatly exceeds anything that these same people feel toward radical Islamists or dangerous rogue-state governments. I’m not a Christian myself, but I’d think that one would be a lot more worried about people who want to cut your head off, blow you up, or at a bare minimum shut down your freedom of speech than about people who want to talk to you about Jesus (or Nascar!)
It seems that there are quite a few people who vote Democratic, even when their domestic and foreign-policy views are not closely aligned with those of the Democratic Party, because they view the Republican Party and its candidates as being dominated by Christians and “rednecks.” This phenomenon has become even more noticeable of late, with the vitriolic attitude of certain prominent “conservatives” toward Trump supporters as a class.”
I discussed the reasons for this syndrome in the post—this cluster of factors has much to do, I think, with Jewish support for Democrats.
https://ricochet.com/548927/archives/the-phobias-that-may-destroy-america-2/
The strongest supporters of Israel anywhere in the world are evangelical Christians in flyover country who love Trump.
They are likely to support military action by Israel by a higher approval rating than Jews in Israel.
agree, but the Sulzbergers like the Pulitzer’s are no longer Jewish in both practice and halacha
The family name was originally Ochs and they were out of the 19th c German Jewish migration stream that hardly exists anymore as a distinct element. The current scion mismanaging the paper, his father, and his grandfather all married gentiles. His grandfather did so at a time when it was quite unfashionable among Jews. Same deal with the Meyer family who owned The Washington Post, but they took this path a generation earlier. The last Meyer scion to run The Post had one Jewish great-grandparent. William Paley, who founded CBS, also married a shiksa at a time (1932) when that was just not done. Charlie Rose once had an interview with Esther Friedman Lederer, aka Ann Landers, who described to him what house rules were when she and her sister were growing up in Sioux City, Iowa, ca. 1935; they were not permitted to date gentiles, no exceptions.
Art Deco: Why, pray tell?
“the “Dixiecrats” as a strident segregationist faction): many, many of whom were anti-Jewish and anti-black”
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“Don’t think white Southerners have ever been notable for a hostility to Jews.”
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Non-sequitur, unless all white Southerners were Dixiecrats.
They had CNN running this morning in the hotel lobby.
The endless repetition of “Trumpism” and the “violent rhetoric” of the right and how it led to an “insurrection attempt to reject the results of a proper election by force”.
Anyone besides me remember the very distinct amount of lefty temper tantrums after the 2016 election? Yeah, that was a REAL attempt to reject the results of a proper election by force.
SMH. As Viva Frei says, “Confession through Projection”.
So I grew up in Southern Indiana, and a woman who helped out with my grandmothers wedding business also spent a great deal of time with us as kids… a third grandmother. She taught Baptist Sunday School for 50 years (just miles from Lincoln’s Boyhood Home), and when I told her I was marrying a Jewish woman she was quite accepting and kind and mentioned something like being part of G-d’s chosen. Interestingly, I was the one who suggested going to Shul, because she needed G-d in her life. Sadly, her being was more of a Democrat, something that contributed to the demise of our marriage.
The progressive Jewish projection on “rednecks” (or whatever label you want to put on salt of the earth red-blooded Americans) is really not warranted to those who have a relationship with G-d. But humans being humans, there are exceptions. The should really go to a local meeting of their local county GOP with an open mind. The worse thing they could do is ask you to go to church…. (but that would be because the wouldn’t know you were Jewish)
In one of the most progressive counties in Colorado, we have Jews, Blacks, Asians, Hispanics… but we don’t think in those terms. Just in terms of being American.
There is far more anti-Semitism on any Ivy League campus than you will find in any medium sized southern U.S. city. More racism, also.
The problem started when Moses descended mount Sinai with a subscription to the NY Times.
Non-sequitur, unless all white Southerners were Dixiecrats.
I don’t think if you sift through surviving typescripts of Strom Thurmond’s speeches delivered in 1948 you’re going to find any Jew-baiting.
If Hitler were non-white, Bruce Hoffman would be fighting to be first in line for the gas chambers.
As my grandmother used to say, “a shonde for the goyim”.