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Do American Jews Like Trump?
It figures. Sooner or later Orange Shithead (a.k.a. Donald Trump or OS) would start getting so desperate to somehow save his campaign that he would try motivating his MAGA contingent by going after the Jews.
I don’t mean all Jews. I just mean Jews who are planning to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket because most Jews in the United States have voted for the Democrat(ic) Party even before Truman did his thing with Israel back in 1948.
And the reason for this continued alignment between Jews and Democrats has to do with a legacy of liberalism that Jews brought with them when they came to the United States from Eastern Europe beginning in the 1880’s until the gates shut down in 1923.
Maybe we’re one generation removed from the continued tie between Jewish- Americans and the Democrat(ic) Party, maybe we’re not. Either way, at least give OS credit for trying to create some degree of alt-right presence in the Jewish community, which no previous GOP Presidential candidate had the brains or the moxie to try and figure out.
Except rather than making an appeal directly to any of the major Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League or the American Jewish Congress, both of which generally follow the liberal line, Trump shows up at a meeting of an alt-right group, the Israeli American Council, which was founded by his good…