Originally published at: Donald Trump’s Anti-Semitic Obsession With Jews
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Late last month, Donald Trump declared that if he loses the November election, it will be the Jews’ fault. He wasn’t speaking to the Proud Boys or a neo-Nazi group. He was at meetings with Jewish Republicans. Despite this, he made Jews…
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On day closer to 11/5 and hopefully the end of tsf as a presidential candidate (and, heaven forbid, as a president).
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… that incites other bigots
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And that’s a feature, not as bug.
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If Kamala Harris wins, Trump warned, Israel will be “eradicated,” “wiped off the face of the earth” and “cease to exist.”
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Straight up BULLSHIT
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Given the man’s poorly concealed inner idolization of Hitler - this essentially has been inevitable.
Trump’s core - Trump’s “CPU” operates on a system of hate & scapegoating … and for Trump to attain his full “hate potential” he definitely will be dialing up the antisemitism toxicity.
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DonOLD thrives on chaos. DonOLD loves him some chaos. DonOLD will do, or say anything to create chaos. DonOLD can’t not get enough chaos in his diet.
We need Serenity NOW!!!
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“I don’t care what his cult says, I know him personally. And here’s the truth: My uncle is the only person I know without one redeeming quality. Not a single one.” – Mary Trump
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Essential piece. Deserving of its length. I’m sharing widely but who knows if even one person among my circle will have their mind changed let alone understanding expanded. No Jew anywhere should support this momzer.
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The actual NYT, or NYTPitchbot? “As anti-Semitism has surged from the internet into the streets, President Trump has done too little to rouse the national conscience against it,” the New York Times observed in an April 2019 editorial.
If you’re Trump, or rather, if you are a Republican President, being a life-long, shameless, committed anti-semite comes out as “doing too little to rouse the national conscience against it.”
If the NYT’s weather staff reported on weather like the political staff reported on politics: “As a huge storm surge floods the streets of Tampa, Hurricane Milton has done too little to stop it.”
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He is, but it’s more nuanced with Jews. I’m sure he considers them to be White, so they don’t fall into the same bigoted bucket as Black folks and Brown folks. Maybe a slightly lesser form of White than northern European stock, but still useful if they’re handling your money and legal matters.
It’s the transactional thing that gets under his skin, his lack of understanding how Jewish Americans relate to Israel.
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Yes, excellent writing and in depth journalism. Shared with friend in Israel.
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I’m getting old so I don’t know if I’m dreaming that once upon a time one could reliably find reporting of this quality in The New York Times.
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Like a monkey in a suit. Even this is a performance.
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Antisemitic tropes are core beliefs of both trump and Miriam Adelson.
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A few observations:
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Even after Cohn was disbarred, he continued to work for Trump until it became public that the closeted Cohn had AIDS, at which point Trump refused to speak with him again.
Imagine being so crippled by homophobia that you ghost your own mob lawyer mentor because he is dying.
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anyone who is passingly familiar with The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the anti-Semitic forgery
It’s funny that we have to dignify that trash with the word “forgery.” People who hate Jews made up a bunch of bullshit and then pretended that Jews say those things to each other in secret. But I guess when you hate somebody, every bad thing is true about them, including bad stuff you make up in your dogpile.
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a kind of genetic determinism that harkens back to the worst moments of twentieth century history
I was recently rewatching a critique of one of the recent Star Wars movies (which I did not see), and it makes the point that SW canon now claims that Rey and Kylo Ren are special because they come from the two most-powerful families. It is very much aligned with Trump’s quote here that "when you connect two racehorses, you usually end up with a fast horse.”
The critique only digs into this as far as it undermines the rest of the narrative, but I gotta say I think it’s significant that Disney Corporation is using one of its biggest IPs to push an analog of genetic determinism to children (and fan-boys, aka children).
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Don’t even get TSF started on Midichlorians.
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Star Wars has been all over the map on that hereditary bullshit. Luke was Anakin’s son from the first ten minutes of the series, but The Force was initially treated as something open to anyone. Then in ESB and ROTJ, Luke was treated as someone special because he was Anakin’s son. ROTJ also saw that (slightly) expanded to Leia purely because she was Anakin’s daughter. Meanwhile, Jedi masters like Obi-Wan and Yoda seem to exist for the original point that The Force is available to anyone who chooses to attune to it.
In the second trilogy, Anakin himself is sui generis, with no genetic explanation for his conception or whatever the hell those special thingamabobs in his blood are. That humble origin mostly appears to be true of Rey in the first two flicks of the most recent trilogy, and it’s very explicit in the second movie that who you come from doesn’t matter. At the same time, Ky-Lo Ren is the grandson of Anakin, so the writers just can’t make up their mind whether Force affinity is something you learn or something you’re born with. Then the third movie ruins it all by retconning Rey into being Palpatine’s granddaughter.
Honestly, Star Wars is better without The Force. I would rather watch Rogue One than just about any other of the series. It’s the heart that matters in that one, not genetics.
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