The Book of Esther is in many ways strikingly modern. It describes a pattern of events that has evidently repeated itself for millennia, to the present day.
As a bonus, there’s a happy ending.
The old Jews know what the New Age Jews do not, that history has not ended, that the past is still with us and that it has sharp teeth. They know that Man has not changed, that his sophistication is still only a shell and that sooner or later the shell cracks. If it does not crack from within, then it is cracked from without.
Jews like Mordechai will understand this. New Age Democtrat Jews do not.
The confrontation between (Mordechai) Republicans and (Haman) Democrats is a collision between two different conceptions of what history is and will be.