Another day, another anti-Semitic trope in defense of Donald Trump. The latest defense is surprising, though, coming as it does from Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post. Glick writes that Republican Jews are committing “collective political suicide” by not supporting Trump — and that they’re taking the Republican Party, if not the entirety of American Jewry, down with them.
Like any number of Pepe-the-Frog-avatar Twitter accounts, Glick is happy to blame Jews, a miniscule fraction of Republican Party voters, for a possible Trump loss. She glosses over what is happening to Republican Jews on the right. She writes that Republican Jewish attitudes toward Trump will adversely impact how the Party as a whole treats Jews. It sounds like a command to get in line, and fast.
Glick brings up an Intelligence Squared U.S. debate held in Manhattan last week. The subject was “Blame the elites for the Trump phenomenon.” All four debaters were conservatives who are, within a range, anti-Trump. Tim Carney and Ben Domenech were on the side blaming the elites for Trump’s rise. Jennifer Rubin and Bret Stephens opposed that view, mostly arguing that the voters share some of the blame.
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