NEW YORK (JNS) – Conservatives need to “start the post-Donald Trump era as soon as possible,” says JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin in the latest episode of “Top Story”.
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But they need to do so while holding on to his populist spirit and not reverting to the policies of the failed establishment the former president displaced.
Though the pro-Israel community owes him gratitude for what he did as president, his behavior and the evidence from the midterms demonstrates that he’s now an electoral liability.
According to Tobin, Trump’s dinner with Kanye West and a gaggle of antisemitic Holocaust deniers and his refusal to condemn them or admit fault was not just outrageous. It also makes it harder for Republican Jews to call out the hypocrisy of President Joe Biden, who condemns Trump but cozies up to his own party’s antisemites: Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.
Tobin is joined by Commentary magazine executive editor Abe Greenwald who agrees that Trump was not personally antisemitic but that his “repulsive” actions and bizarre behavior in attacking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and issuing an NFT trading card series depicting himself as a superhero is driving away even some of his longtime supporters. Both think that Trump is the only person who could re-elect Biden in 2024.
Delving deeper into the Trump-West controversy, Greenwald says he was particularly troubled by Dave Chapelle’s Saturday Night Live monologue on the subject in part because of the way it ignored African-American violence against Jews. But more than that, Chapelle said Jews shouldn’t blame blacks for their problems. That was, Greenwald said, “preposterous,” because it was West who blamed the Jews for his problems.
A woke attack on culture
Discussing a Commentary article on the woke attack on culture, education and government, Greenwald says he was encouraged by signs that Americans were pushing back against toxic leftist ideas that undermined the nation and made them less safe. The problem was that the effort to overturn radical leftist policies was being derailed by the need to deal with Trump’s problems and obsessions with re-litigating the 2020 election.
Turning to foreign policy, Greenwald says that the attempt to blame neoconservatism for foreign policy failures was somewhat misleading since the neocons were right about a lot, not the least of which was that Obama and Biden were wrong to try to appease Iran.
Commentary chief editor John Podhoretz wrote a vile anti Trump column long before Kanye . This bunch of conservative pretenders are actually lefties at heart. They’re Trump haters and nobody reads their rag anyway
Tobin is disengenuous , he never liked Trump. Ye is now the hottest anti Trump babble but we know it’s not that , only an excuse. A ploy to discourage Jews to abandon Trump , which laughable because they never voted for him anyway. TRUMP and 75 million were defrauded and justice will come.
He has legitimate disdain for the modern American voter who might still elect an incompetent, demented man who stole someone else’s wife.
“According to Tobin, Trump’s dinner with Kanye West and a gaggle of antisemitic Holocaust deniers and
his refusal to condemn them or admit fault was not just outrageous. It also makes it harder for Republican Jews to call out the hypocrisy of
President Joe Biden, who condemns Trump but cozies up to his own party’s antisemites: Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.”
This is so lib stupid. President Trump, out of office, had one brief dinner with these wackos. To even compare that to the Muslim lawmakers who wield legislative power, is absurd.
Ignore election fraud and the Republicans will lose forever no matter who runs. These two are only insulting our intelligence. Next.
It’s ironic that many Jewish Americans who criticize Trump’s dinner with West freely visit and even sympathize with PLO leaders in Israel.
GEORGE SANTOS FOR VP!.
He’s qualified – he lies more than herr trump!
Trump the GOP standard bearer or nobody. Nobody else will win , get it thru your heads. Millions of MAGA will not vote.
DeSantis then ? Ask the people who know him. He’s aloof , weird , rude , short tempered and with a huge staff turnover. It will all come out if he foolishly decides to run
This is exactly why the democrats want trump in the news. They refuse to move on. Anyone with sechel knows let it go. It’s the past and you will never lock him up anyhow. So why are we busy with him ? The answer is bec we want Trump to run or at least be in the news. If we’d focus on Biden boy would he lose . One only needs to show empty shelves of formula & medicine next to a shelf of Eggs that are $6 a dozen. It doesn’t take much to say we are a third world country under Biden.