“PITY THE JEWISH INTELLECTUALS OF MAGA. The nascent effort to contain the spread of anti-Semitism is years overdue.” (The Atlantic)
I am among many attributes in my life, an American who is Jewish. And as I have watched way too many other Americans who are Jewish, espouse the Trump mantra and MAGA movement, which for me has always smelled of antisemitism, I grew frustrated and dismayed.
“For a time, it was possible for the Jewish intellectuals of MAGA—a small but influential set of podcasters, columnists, and theorists—to minimize anti-Semitism in the movement. But it’s now so ubiquitous and so noxious that even they can’t ignore it. Joel Pollak, the former editor in chief of Breitbart News, wrote on X in December that, until a few months before, he would have happily sent his children to a Turning Point USA event. Not anymore. “Now: why would I send them to one more place where Jewish kids have to defend who they are and what they believe?”
“They lent their prestige to it anyway, certain that the hateful rhetoric was meant for someone else. Now that it has landed directly on them, they want credit for noticing the stench.” (The Atlantic)
Here we go again, NOT UNTIL IT AFFECTS ME WAS IT EVER MY CONCERN. Yep, these Jewish MAGA, Turning Point, Republican Jewish Americans, all who felt safe that their form of Judaism was safe and sound, surrounded by Nazi themes and intentions, because they hated THE OTHERS, are now sadly discovering that all along they indeed were the others. It wasn’t convenient at the time for the Republicans to turn on the Jews, after all, there were so many people like Mariam Adelson providing millions and millions of dollars to keep them in power. But now that they are entrenched in power, they no longer need a bunch of Jews in their midst!
