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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.

Time for American Jews to Start Riding the Trump Train, Too



Time for American Jews to Start Riding the Trump Train, TooWith 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 PROVIDED THAT THEY (THE JEWS) DEMEAN THEMSELVES AS GOOD CITIZENS… (And give) IT (the country) ON ALL OCCASIONS THEIR EFFECTUAL SUPPORT. 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.

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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 anti-Semitism 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 [url=http://www.whitehouse.org]http://www.whitehouse.org[/url] 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.


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