Trump’s loyalty test and the path to 2020
President Trump drew scorn with his recent comment that Jews who vote for Democrats suffer from knowledge and loyalty deficits.
We Jews are renowned for our intelligence. The 70% to 80% of Jews who vote Democratic in presidential elections are indeed quite loyal — to the Democratic Party. And questioning Jewish “loyalty” spooked some Jews to recede into the dark fear that comes with the canard of dual loyalty over our ties to Israel.
Taken at face value, Trump’s comment seemed off-message. Which takes me to a recent off-the-record conversation I conducted with a long-standing source with close ties to the Trump administration. My source assured me that the president always knows exactly what he is doing and how he proposes to get it done before sounding off or embarking on any new policy.
It requires a great leap of faith to agree wholeheartedly. No political leader, or CEO for that matter, can lay claim to infallibility, although that’s not what my source was implying. Applying his contention to the case at hand, Trump, either intentionally or unintentionally, is trying to capitalize on a clear trend — in America and worldwide — where voters are shedding their long-standing partisan alignments.
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