Medved was a Yale classmate of John Kerry and knew him as a pompous windbag in service to his presidential ambitions even then. One cannot re-iterate too often his saying that Orthodox jews (not blackhats) are far more grounded and comfortable in their skin and feel no more need for utopian ideologies than the rest of us.
Another interesting point that Rabbi Lapin makes in "America's Real War" was that part of the reason for the Holocaust was not purely the Germans turning on the Jews, but on those Jews who had abandoned their Jewishness. In short, Lapin argues the point that the greatest antisemitism was against those Jews who assimilated to the Germans and abandoned the purity of their faith. Those Jews in parts of Germany and other European countries who maintained their faith, their dress, their customs, etc., were far less molested by the antisemitic. As Santayana said, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.