Neocons ...and no not all are Jewish live by this precept
One is Democrats have been evil from and including Andrew Jackson
Two their ideology is GOPe
Three they really can’t handle being associated with real not civic nationalism and the culture war that accompanies that
They eschew culture in favor of nation building and open borders
Four and this is the big one for me and you see it here. They are uncomfortable with historical Dixiecrats and their grandchildren as now the most dependable base of GOPe voting and think that by constantly demonizing out ancestry as evil nazi racist slavers and rebels that it absolves them of any guilt by association.
“See we’re not really racist too”
And this is I guess where some Jewish sense of fear comes in...many think it’s accurate to fear average right wing southerners with just a little push can be your next kristallnacht
Despite the fact that demographic is no question Israel’s biggest support in America
If you look at the early days of The New Republic and Marty Peretz the publisher you’ll see one branch of the origins of today’s no culture war GOPe even though Marty was a Mondale democrat
Kristol embodies this
Podhoretz as well but his dad was not as bad. His dad predates this.
For me it’s often seemed that these former New Deal Democrats from the urban north left the Dems because the Democrats became too soft on national security and in particular Israel
But despite the fact the more well known are Jewish, all neoconservatives are not Jewish...Romney for instance could be considered one as could most of the Bushes White House and so on
But make no mistake demonizing my ancestry is what they do because they think it helps them or....maybe they are just petty
Or maybe they are just uneducated. They don’t study the origins of the Civil War (except in cliched ways), they have no interest in the history of the Civil War or the effects that Reconstruction had on the south (I assume they think southerners deserved everything they got). Stephen Hayes took a “sabbatical” in Spain while I took my “sabbatical” in Alabama. They know nothing about the south except what is in bad movies and The Beverly Hillbillies.