Today marks the end of our third Trump election cycle and somehow the Maga movement has found new depths of racism to plumb, more extreme conspiracies to peddle, and new groups to incite violence against regardless of whether Trump wins or loses.
American Jews have played a central role in the Trump campaign – though while in previous cycles Trump made grand overtures to the country’s Jewish communities, this year he appears to be tiring of us. Speaking at a “Fighting Anti-Semitism in America” event in Washington DC in September, Trump claimed that he would “defeat antisemitism and defend our Jewish citizens in America” and, in the same breath, that Jews who voted for someone as “anti-Israel” as Kamala Harris should have their “head examined” and should take the blame if he loses – a terrifying threat for a group of people who have in recent history endured pogroms and mass shootings. …more
