LISTEN: Every presidential election is basically a choice between the lesser of two evils, not between two tzadikkim, or one tzaddik and one rasha
Two months ago, a colleague of mine, Laura Adkins, the opinion editor for the JTA news service asked me to write an op-ed explaining why Orthodox Jews support President Trump and why they are voting for him again.
I accepted the assignment. Not that my goal was to convince people who oppose Trump to vote for him.
My objective was to simply illuminate to a wider Jewish readership why some 80% of Orthodox Jews voted for Trump in 2016 and why at least 83% of them will vote for him this year as well, at least according to a poll recently commissioned by our media colleagues at Ami Magazine.
My op-ed went viral, as the saying goes. JTA provides news and opinion to about 70 media outlets around the world. Most of them picked up my piece. That includes the Jerusalem Post, the Times of Israel, a slew of local Jewish newspapers in various US cities, and even on the Real Clear Politics website tab that covers religion.
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