Into the Night
Contributor
You are describing Democrats again. You can't blame Democrats on Trump.It’s especially important to think critically about this in the Trump era, one of the most convincing analyses of Donald Trump’s attitude toward Jews is that he believes all the classic stereotypes about money-grubbing Jews controlling the world — it’s just, as Yair Rosenberg argues in another article warning of the dangers of philo-Semitism, that he thinks they’re admirable qualities. Certainly this accounts for his recent remarks to the Israeli American Council National Summit. When he told those assembled, “You’re brutal killers, not nice people at all… but you’re not going to vote for the wealth tax,” he thought he was giving them a compliment.
In this way, Trump is an object lesson in the dangers of philo-Semitism. He might think these presumed Jewish differences are admirable, but he also believes they are fundamental, ethno-national differences that fit perfectly within his broader racialized, ethno-nationalist worldview.