President Trump on Tuesday promoted a group called Jexodus, highlighting the argument that Jews should leave the Democratic Party as it becomes engulfed by anti-Semitism.
I’ve been chronicling how leading Democrats have normalized anti-Semitism by laundering it as mere criticism of Israel even when it is not, and I would love a world in which Jewish Democrats took a stand. Taking a step back and looking at the issue as a dispassionate political analyst who is also quite familiar with the Jewish community, I don’t see that happening on a mass scale in 2020, for a number of reasons. Though I wouldn’t discount a longer-term shift in partisan loyalties.
Just by way of background, in this case, Trump was reacting to an Fox and Friends appearance of Elizabeth Pipko, a former campaign staffer who is now a spokesperson for a group called Jexodus, which bills itself as an organization of millennials calling for Jews to leave the Democratic Party over its anti-Israel policies and tepid response to anti-Semitism in their own ranks.
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