The former president found a supportive audience at the Republican Jewish Coalition gathering even after his Hezbollah comments.
The Jewish portion of the “he surely won’t eat our faces…” club.
Remember: there was a “Jews for Hitler” group. In Germany.
I wonder if those at this gathering are aware of that history.
I, for one, had not known that (tho’ I am not Jewish). Thx.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
Dude openly supports antisemites, and they’re like, “Mmm, gotta get us some of that!”
Reminder that Jews for Hitler was also a thing.
And there were Jewish Nazis
The human species sure is an interesting thing…
Of all the Republican presidential contenders who spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference Saturday, Trump received the most sustained applause, with some in the crowd of over 1,000 people holding their iPhones aloft to get a picture of the former president.
Wow 1,000 idiots love trump? What a scoop!
He recently called Hamas very smart. I’m probably being naive but I honestly thought that might erode his support among Jewish Republicans. I was surprised they gave him such a boisterous welcome. It could all be astroturf though.
Anyone that still supports him isn’t going to stop now.
I know people that voted for him in 2016 but voted for Biden in 2020. I think there’s at least one person who voted for him twice but won’t this time.
Well, if it gets to the point where his goons have arrested little d’s son in law for being Jewish (and Ivanka for being a race traitor) and they are rounding up Jews all around the country, maybe then they might think twice about their support for this fascist.
Nah, it’s a cult and he’s their messiah. He can literally do no wrong in their eyes.
It’s fairly common for conservatives to suddenly have an epiphany if something affects themselves or their immediate family.
I think a lot of right wing POC, immigrants, women, lgtbtq, Jews, etc., think that they’ll be considered one of the “good ones” and won’t ever face any bad outcomes as a result of their own support for the Republicans.
If the cons seize power, they’ll eventually get around to the purity tests, of that I’m certain.
I remember a story about a trump supporter whose husband was undocumented and guess what happened? He got deported.
“I think our President is going to keep all the good people here. He is not going to tear up families. I don’t think he wants to do that. He just wants to keep us safe,” Helen Beristain told WSBT in March.
Today, she feels betrayed.
Here’s the article in case you’d like to read it.
I remember that. It was a total “I didn’t think the Face Eating Leopards were going to eat MY face” moment.
Say what you want about Trump, but he didn’t even try to hide his intentions towards immigrants. It’s not like he came in saying “I love immigrants” and then suddenly turned. He was quite clear that he hated every immigrant and would deport as many as he could. For this woman to hear that and add “except for my husband” in her head was crazy.
As a Jew whose parents support Trump (and Republicans in general), it won’t erode his support. They’ll make excuses as to what he really meant while saying “he’s not anti-semitic because he supports Israel.”
Of course, Israel isn’t American Jewery. Trump “supports Israel” because his evangelicals need Jews running Israel for Jesus to return. He doesn’t care at all about Jews and the Republican party is going all in on “this is a Christian nation and any citizen who isn’t Christian can pound sand.” (They also like Israel because it gives them a place they can say they’ll deport all Jews to.)
But my parents are blinded by “supports Israel” and so they ignore everything else surrounding this.
Oh that makes me sad. I’m going to keep hoping that at least a few people realize that he’s just a conman.
I’m surprised he didn’t get on stage and say, “Hitler? He loved me. If I were president I would have told him gassing those people was… it was not so good.”
Or maybe he did and they’re still supporting him, WTFK
