Trump:Personification of the traditional pro-business, pro-Israel America that has allowed Jews to flourish for more than 200 years. Look at France, Germany, just two places in Europe unsafe for Jews, both riddled with Leftism and antisemitism
With fewer than 450 days to the 2020 election, it’s no longer too early to assert why American Jews ought to vote to re-elect the president: Trump is good for America and America is good for the Jews.
As the Trump re-election campaign debuts its “coalitions” outreach effort, the question inevitably arises whether American Jews will in significant numbers switch from their traditional allegiance to the Democratic Party and support a president who moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem as perhaps his crowning pro-Jewish achievement.
Women for Trump, Blacks for Trump, and Hispanics for Trump polling has already seen a significant bump in support to the president in these other familiar Democrat voting blocs. But what of the American Jews, who famously were described in the 1970s to be people who dress like Episcopalians, but vote like Puerto Ricans?
A relatively small shift in the Jewish vote in 2020 to President Trump from the Democrats in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Texas could be the difference between victory and defeat. As in the past, Republicans see an opening: with Democrats increasingly viewed as anti-Israel and as the home of anti-Semitism when the two parties are considered.
The Republicans have dreamed this dream in the past, largely to no avail. Significant Jewish participation in politics in the United States dates to the post-Civil War period when Jews advocated for their full inclusion in American life. According to Kenneth Wald, a political science professor at the University of Florida, Jews have voted Democrat in large numbers since Franklin D. Roosevelt promised a country in the 1930s with liberal values and that required no religious identity or affiliation. Therefore, Democrats have owned “separation of church and state,” and the Jewish vote, Wald wrote.
Nevertheless, Jewish Republicans feel that this election cycle represents the best chance yet to change that dynamic. They see a president who opened his country clubs to Jews, whose father supported Israel and Jewish causes, and whose daughter is an Orthodox Jewish convert, in addition to tremendous policy triumphs. Still, let’s put aside the president’s pro-Israel policies and that he has spoken against anti-Semitism at every turn. Forget for the moment that President Trump is the most pro-business president in 100 years and that the business of Jews is business. President Trump is putting America First, and America as envisioned by the Founders has provided Jews with a hospitable environment for more than 200 years.
In 1790, President George Washington wrote his famous letter to the Hebrew Congregations of Newport, Rhode Island. In that letter, Washington promised that the new United States would be different—that religious toleration would give way to religious liberty and that the government would not interfere with individuals in matters of conscience and belief
For the most part, Jews have fulfilled Washington’s mandate having fought in all of America’s wars and “giving back” to their communities. Trump is the personification of love of country and the American meritocracy that has so benefitted Jews. These are under assault by the identity politics of the Left. American Jews ought to recognize these two facts and for this reason alone they should support the president’s re-election.
Now, what of the anti-Semitism that lives and thrives in the Democratic Party? First and foremost, President Trump moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem in May 2018, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Israel’s founding. This officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel, and ended the period from 1995 when Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act. Only President Trump accomplished moving the embassy, with every previous president saying it was “not the right time.”
In March of this year, President Trump also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Israel captured the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and formally annexed it in 1981. Israel’s action had not been internationally recognized, but now it is, thanks to President Trump. President Trump is phenomenally popular in Israel with some polls saying that he has the support of 70 percent of Jewish Israelis.
The final foreign policy triumph for the president benefitting American Jews was the withdrawal from the horribly one-sided Iran deal of the Obama Administration. This agreement included sending the Mullahs of Iran $150 billion in cash to spread around to terrorist organizations such as Hamas to menace Israel from the Gaza Strip.
President Trump has highlighted the antisemitism in the Democratic Party, particularly Bernie Sanders and “the Squad” of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York City; Ilhan Omar of Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Rashida Tlaib of Detroit. Omar, a foreign-born Muslim, is one of the leading advocates of the BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) Movement in America that seeks to delegitimize Israel. Omar has compared Israel to Nazi Germany in supporting the BDS Movement. Tlaib has called Israel a racist country and supported BDS as well. In her congressional office, Tlaib reportedly has a wall map on which she has covered Israel with a post-it note.
The grassroots effort to dislodge Jews from the Democratic Party is going full bore with the Exodus Movement, started by model Elizabeth Pipko. She accuses the Democrats of having a problem with anti-Semitism and wants millennials to vote Republican. Unfortunately, trying to get American Jews to leave the Democratic plantation is a tough slog. Exit polling in mid-term congressional races in 2018 revealed that perhaps more than 80 percent of self-identified Jews say they voted for Democratic candidates. American Jews have also been asked to join the #walkaway movement, the general effort asking “traditional” Democrats to leave the new, hard-Left Democratic Party of free stuff, Deep State administrative tyranny, and Open Borders.
Finally, Jews and everyone else can see the successes of the Trump Administration on the http://www.whitehouse.org website:
- A record number of regulations eliminated;
- Almost four million jobs created since the 2016 election;
- The biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history.
- Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in three decades.
- Women, black, Hispanic, and Asian unemployment rates that have fallen to historic low levels.
Trump has created the greatest business climate since Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Jews have been able to succeed in Trump’s type of America based on grit, ingenuity, and limited government interference. Imagine the economic and political basket case America would become should Elizabeth Warren or any of the other hard-left Democrats come to power in 2020.
President Trump is the personification of the traditional pro-business and pro-Israel America that has allowed Jews to flourish in America for more than 200 years. Look at France and Germany to name just two places in Europe unsafe for Jews, both riddled with Leftism and anti-Semitism. Trump is good for America, and America is good for Jews. It would be nice for a few more Jews in a key states to recognize this so we can have four more years of President Trump. #MAGA, #KAG and #JewsForTrump.
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Daniel Wiseman is an independent political commentator, who focuses on national and international affairs. He spent nine years as a professional journalist in Wyoming before working in fund-raising, non-profit management, and is now working in New York City. Wiseman focuses his writing on how to bring the United States back to its Constitutional moorings. He writes exclusively for Canada Free Press.
@ Ted Belman:
Ted, I think you’ve said that (your response to Felix) succinctly and well.
@ Felix Quigley:
In looking at the question of the constitution and religion, here is my starting point.
But the world is very complex. The Supreme Court has been struggling with, on the one hand the right of religious people to live by their religion, which may be seen as discriminatory, and the right of the country to legislate against discrimination. There are many examples of this conflict.
Beyond that, the left is constantly attacking religious symbols and practises in the public square. The Court struggles to adjudicate on such matters.
The link above is the only reference to religion in the constitution.
As Islam continues it’s 1400 year old plan for death to ALL NONBELIEVERS, an astonishing percentage of nonbelievers are convinced NO ONE should be permitted to own a weapon for self defense. Gun owners are untrustworthy dangerous people and need to be controlled by a trustworthy government. PLEASE JOIN ME IN PRAYER…….EDDIE
These 4 antisemites…the issue is overblown. Let them in…on the terms of Israel where they go etc. Then expose them in front of the world
Or bar them…all equal
It is not worth spending two minutes on this
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
Since I cannot get a raise out of Ted Belman on the two key issues of the American Constitution and its secular content, and global warming…I appeal to you
Give your knowledge right here and now about the Constitution…just say what you know…if you know nothing say it too.
Also say what is your understanding of Global Warming and Canada…and next door up the road the Arctic
I need to get this out in the open.
I appeal to you Adam dalgliesh to not ignore me on this
@ Bear Klein:I agree, Bear, that some son-Orthodox American Jews care deeply about Israel. But they have become a minority, perhaps only about 15-20%, of all non-Orthodox American Jews. I also suspect that nearly all of them vote Republican, and specifically for Trump in the last presidential election. I don’t have the statistics on my fingertips. but I think that the percentage of American Jews, whether Orhodox or non-Orthodox, who care deeply about Israel is nearly equal to the percentage who voted for Trump. Very few Jews who vote Democcrat on a regular basis, I believe, consider Israel’s security one of their priorities.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:I actually believe more non-Orthodox Jews support Trump at least on subjects like Israel. They may go under polled because of the stigma attached to supporting Trump openly.
Anecdotally, I have some evidence of this.
@ Uzitiger:Why address this to me? I do not understand how any real Jew could support this Democratic Party.
I am glad that according to Gallup far less Jews are identifying as Dems.
@ Bear Klein:
How can any self respecting Jew support the DemocRat Party with their open antisemitism?
That party has a history of antisemitism and the Ku Klux Klan was founded by them. Their goals sound like the Nazi Party’s goals along with their open attacks on Jews and the Jewish state
@ Ted Belman:
With respect come off the fence. There is the most fundamental attack being made here by Christian fundamentalists on the American Constitution, and it emerges on this very thread, on the site that you act as editor, and you are silent on it. I have stated my interpretation of the American Constitution and the secular issue. Where do you stand?
@ Bear Klein: Bear, another poll, not Gallop I think, found that 29% of American Jews voted for Trump. This was very close to the percentage that put concern for Israel at the top of their concerns. This poll (I can’t remember the specifics about when it was conducted or who conducted it) also showed that most Jewish Trump voters place Israel at or near the top of their concerns, while almost no Jewish Democratic voters did. Also, most Orthodox Jews voted for Trump, but few non-Orthodox Jews did. In other words, the stronger a Jew feels about the well-being of Jews in general, the more likely he is to be a Trump supporter and a Republican.
@ Felix Quigley:
i DELETED A COMMENT OF YOURS BECAUSE i DIDN’T LIKE YOUR ATTACK ON BEAR. TONE IT DOWN.
Gallup has founded that 25% of the Jews have left the Democratic Party.
52% of Jews are Dems
31% are Independents
17% are GOP
While this might not equate to Trump support at least a significant amount of Jews are moving away from the Dems. Hopefully more will follow.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/247757/one-six-jews-identify-republican.aspx
Trump Administration backing Israel’s decision to keep out Congressional antisemities Tlaib & Omar who are enemies of the State of Israel and would like to see it’s destruction.
@ Bear Klein:
The following is the type of human excrement that comes fromt he likes of Bear Klein, a very poor excuse for an independent Jew. Just listen to this rabble type crap?
“Trump is very consistent pro Israel. He is also protecting religious freedom. Trump de-arrangement syndrome has hit some very hard. Trump/Pence 2020!”
No he is not consistent pro Israel or pro Jew either. He engaged in nepotism and gave his son in law a job and keeps his unqualified daughter there as well.
That has NOTHING to do with the Republic.
And you Bear Klein have support for this political weed Pence who stabbed Michael Flynn in the back.
Trump dishonours that Republic and mixes Jews in with this dishonouring dangerously.
@ Bear Klein:
This stuff sets out to confuse and it shows how far America has moved from its Constitution.
It was secular. Totally so.
Are you denying that Bear Klein or do I have to quote from it?
Anything that the state of America does has got tobe done on the basis of a strict secularism. No ifs and buts.
But outside of the state, that is government, the individual is free to practice and think whatever the hell they want.
THAT is the point. That is how America became a very religious country in fact.
As always Bear Klein you are both confused yourself and confusing. You are setting out to tear down the very foundations of America and now your type can only be stopped by Trotskyism. By stopped I mean exposed politically for the charlatan that you are!
PS. An example is this manure:
“Consistent with the President’s policy to enforce the robust protections for religious freedom found in federal law, the proposed rule states that it should be construed to provide the broadest protection of religious exercise recognized by the Constitution and other laws, such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.”
This crock of manure is setting out to destroy the kernel of the Constitution. As I said above the freedom exists already. So what are they getting at?
Trump is very consistent pro Israel. He is also protecting religious freedom. Trump de-arrangement syndrome has hit some very hard. Trump/Pence 2020!
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ofccp/ofccp20190814
@ greenrobot:
Men and men love each other. They are in love with each other.
Women and women love each other. They are in love with each other.
I would think it is safe to say this has been going on for a long time. Why the hate message from somebody who claims to be Jewish?
BEWARE THIS CFP
The very first step is for Jews in America to take a totally independent position. That means that they are not tied to either Republicans or to Democrats.
It is also a fact that Trump is a particular brand of republicanism. There are things in the agenda of Trump that need to be supported, such as the right of a nation to have borders that are meaningful.
If you do not have that in any country then the country, or nation state, becomes inoperable. No real action on any issue, such as how to overcome global warming, can be carried out.
And I support Trump on THAT issue because it is a general principle.
Such a general principle that it applies in all situations because I want to use THAT principle in order to defeat the policy and thoughts of Trump on Global Warming. He claims it is a hoax.
But other things about Trump? Answer a definite NO! Jews and all must be totally independent in mind, spirit and programme.
How do I arrive at that principle, the need to defend the nation, and opposition to Open Door at the borders, and the answer is that I remain independent of either party.
The Jews in America, and here I mean the millions, are indeed very intelligent. They can see through these political nobodies on Canada Free Press.
This is the lesson of the Holocaust and the whole of Jewish history.
Jews have taken this lesson very deeply into their perspective. They voted for Obama mainly on one issue, the opposition to the Bush Iraq War and the overthrow of Saddam.
The Exodus Movement from the Democrats is certainly good, but if it is Exodus into the Republicans, then not good at all.
Jews must be independent. Think for themselves. And must question everything and especially question the Canada Free Press.
@ Lorensacho: Why do you think what being Jewish means is support of sodomy ?
@ Lorensacho:
Personally, as a Jew and a Zionist I would not want to support a Party that takes its lead from a “Squad + 1” of Israel-bashing, BDS-supporting anti-Semites. They were effective enough to reduce a strong statement on antisemitism to a wishy-washy bit of verbiage. So is that who YOU support, or do you have a different thought in mind?
Today, this was reported on the Daily Beast web site.
“The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed allowing businesses with federal contracts to discriminate against workers on the basis of sex, race, LGBT status, and other characteristics. The rule, if passed, would be in direct opposition to Donald Trump’s declaration in January 2017 that he would leave the Obama administration’s LGBT protections intact. The 46-page draft made public by the Labor Department would apply to any organization that could prove it serves a religious purpose.” Any Jew who can support this policy and the president who proposed it, has forgotten who they are and what being Jewish means.