Jews Take Note: Dems Are Not That into You

Going back further in history, almost all blacks once voted Republican, as that was the party of Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves. But for decades, black voters have constituted the most solidly Democratic constituency.

In short, things change. But at least since the New Deal, one thing remains the same: Jews vote Democrat. And that would seem unlikely to change with Donald Trump, who arouses visceral feelings of disgust in most Jewish voters, athwart the Republican Party.

And yet at least one recent poll found that a majority of Jews in New York, one of the bluest of states, say they are likely to vote for Trump. Could the non-Orthodox Jewish vote now be up for grabs? Have American Jews discovered that the Democratic Party, or at least its younger, progressive wing, is “not that into us,” in the current vernacular?

OCTOBER 7 SEEMS TO have been a wakeup call for American Jewry. On that day, in the wake of most sadistic murder and torture of Jews imaginable, university campuses across the country, and numerous big cities witnessed crowds celebrating the slaughter of Jews. And that was weeks before the IDF entered Gaza or a single “innocent” Palestinian lost his or her life.