Posted on 07/10/2018 6:27:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
For many on the American Jewish left, President Donald Trumps nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is the last straw. Like his "zero tolerance immigration policy, the prospect of ensuring a solidly conservative majority on the high court is viewed with horror by many who see this as the beginning of the end of liberal democracy.
Indeed, Trumps presidency is so abhorrent to those who deplore his policies that they have ceased to view politics as something on which decent people can agree to disagree.
Thats the only explanation for why even normally sensible people like historian Laurel Leff, whose book about the way The New York Times covered up the Holocaust is still essential reading, would essentially defend the public harassment of Trump administration officials on the specious grounds that Jews who opposed the Nazis in the 1930s were also viewed as not being civil to Germans.
Whatever you may think about the enforcement of existing U.S. immigration laws or about the future of the U.S. Supreme Court, Holocaust analogies to what is happening in the United States are as unhelpful to helping us understand what is going on as they are egregiously wrong.
There is a lot to criticize about Trump but, as the battle over the court reveals, most of what hes done as president are things that any Republican would have done since, to some surprise, he has largely governed as a conventional conservative....
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
I live part time in Broward county..I hear this reference at least once a week. Liberal Jews are as bad or worse! I had no idea how miserable the vast majority are until I moved here.
sounds like a childrens story
The Liberal Jew Who Cried “Nazi”
“and in the end all the vilagers turned their backs on him and when the Shariahbeast came, it ate him up whole ...”
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