Did Trump’s ‘Disloyal’ Quip Poison His Efforts to Win Jews to the Republican Party?

There’s no way to know. Speaking as a person with some Jewish people in my family, I can say it amazes me that so many Jews still vote liberal and support the party that seems to hate Israel. Obama clearly favored Hamas over Israel during his administration. Bill Clinton played both sides against each other, until Arafat backstabbed his “legacy.” Only Trump put our embassy where he said he would in Israel. The Jewish community is very conservative, yet it votes largely liberal. Despite their horrible sufferings under National Socialism (Nazis) and from Christians in medieval Europe, many of them seem to have no problem with socialism or communism as a concept, as it was Communist Jews from Russia who brought Communist theory to the Frankfort School in Germany and later to America via Columbia University. At the time, the horrors of Communism and Socialism were not well understood in America. Since then we have seen what happened in the Spanish Civil War, what happened in Russia, China, North Korea, Cambodia and Vietnam. In the 1930s these things were not well understood, and you had people like Charles Lindbergh supporting the Nazis at first, at least until they proved to be our enemies. Even Lucille Ball originally registered to vote as a communist in that period. So I am not surprised when a group of Americans votes for the enemy, I am merely disgusted by it. Usually they simply don’t know what they don’t know, or more correctly, what they don’t want to know. But I think Trump’s intent was to show the dichotomy of being Left as a Jew when it is the Right that is the side that supports the Jewish nation of Israel. Dennis Prager is probably far more qualified than I to talk on why Jews often vote Left, the side that hates America and supports Hamas. But has pointing out that dichotomy “poisoned” Trump’s position with the Jewish community in America? Not necessarily. It all depends on the individual Jew.