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Debate Night: America in the Balance

Posted on | September 10, 2024 | Comments Off on Debate Night: America in the Balance

The first presidential debate this year was such a huge Trump victory that Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid a few weeks later, resulting in Kamala Harris being anointed as the Democrat nominee. What are the chances that Kamala Harris will do better than Joe did against Trump? We’ll see. Feel free to use the comments as a sort of open thread. While I don’t expect to live-blog the debate, I will try to throw some new stuff in periodically. Maybe the topic of Haitians eating cats will come up.

UPDATE 9:13 p.m. ET: So what they decided to do was, first, ask Kamala about the Biden economic agenda. She doesn’t say anything in defense of Bidenomics, but instead talks about what various things she’s promising to do if elected. Then it’s Trump’s turn, and then they just keep going back and forth — Harris, Trump, Harris, Trump. I don’t know who’s winning this, but it’s annoying the hell out of me.

UPDATE 9:21 p.m. ET: One-liner of the night: “Run, Spot, run!”

UPDATE 10:09 p.m. ET: Wow, this is an awful, awful TV show. I suppose Kamala Harris’s supporters think she’s winning, while Trump has to not only debate his opponent, but also the ABC “moderators” who (a) keep telling lies while “fact-checking” him, and (b) never fact-check any of Kamala’s lies. Trump supporters are probably unhappy, but I don’t imagine they think their guy is losing. Probably the net impact of this whole thing is a wash, but my hunch is that a lot of viewers just tuned out after 30 or 45 minutes of squabbling.

UPDATE 10:28 p.m. ET: Folks, I’ve had as much of this as I can stand. Maybe tomorrow, after three or four cups of coffee, I’ll do a roundup of post-debate reaction, but I’m heading to bed now. Good night!



 

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Springfield Gets What It Deserves

Posted on | September 10, 2024 | Comments Off on Springfield Gets What It Deserves

Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio

When tales of Haitian immigrants eating cats emerged on social media this week, it suddenly focused attention on the city of Springfield, Ohio, but now we are learning there’s more to the story:

“Those 20,000 Haitians did not show up overnight or uninvited. Though flown in by the federal government, they were not forced on the city by the federal government. Elections have consequences. Springfield voted for this. They signaled their virtue, their signal was seen, and virtue arrived. This is what they wanted. This is what they got. They’ll have to deal with the consequences.”

(Hat-tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.) Much commentary has focused on whether it’s true that pets are being killed and eaten by the Haitians, but that’s not really the point. The point is why Springfield became the destination for thousands of Haitians (who may or may not eat cats).

It’s a long story. First of all, you’ll find liberals insisting that these Haitians are not illegal immigrants. Research further, however, and you learn that most of them entered the country illegally, crossing the U.S.-Mexico border after making their way through Central America. After Haiti descended into its latest crisis, the Biden administration granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to all Haitians in the U.S., so you may say that they have been retroactively (but temporarily) “legalized.”

Now let’s talk about Springfield, which is a “blue” island of liberalism in a sea of Republican “red.” Ohio was once a battleground state, closely contested in every presidential election, and then Trump came along and the Buckeye State has now become a GOP stronghold. Springfield was a city of 58,662 residents before the Haitian influx, and the city sits in Clark County (population 136,000) which voted 61% for Trump in 2020.

You see that, if the Democrats can turn these Haitians into voters, they can make Clark County “blue,” and a similar calculus is being applied nationwide by the Biden administration’s immigration policy. Democrats insist that the “Great Replacement” is a right-wing conspiracy theory, but we can see them doing it — blatantly, deliberately, in front of our eyes — in places like Springfield. And this brings us to the late Warren Copeland.

For most of the past three decades, Copeland was the mayor of Springfield. He was a professor at Wittenberg University, a local institution affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Anyone who knows anything about the ELCA will tell you it is the pluperfect example of degenerate liberal Protestantism. “The ELCA has drifted so far into pagan goddess worship that to call it ‘Lutheranism’ is an insult to Luther; to call it ‘Christian’ is blasphemy,” as I wrote in 2016. Copeland was a radical obsessed with “social justice,” and the fact that Springfield repeatedly elected him as their mayor tells you something about the politics of the city. Indeed, Springfield eagerly welcomed the influx of Haitians. Read this article from December 2022:

A surge in the number of Springfield residents from Haiti has resulted in an outpouring of language assistance and additional forms of help from the Springfield City School District and others who are trying to meet their needs.
“Four years ago we didn’t have a Haitian population,” says Pamela Shay, director of federal programs for Springfield City School District.
Now the district has about 200 students from Haitian families, many speaking Haitian Creole, French or Spanish, she says. In the past, the district has had two or three bilingual assistants who speak students’ native languages in order to help in classrooms and communicate with parents. Now the district has nine, she says.
“I think we will see growth continue for a few years,” Shay says. . . .
Estimates about the number of Springfield and Clark County residents from Haiti vary. Shay says she has been told there are about 7,500 Haitians in the area, although she suspects the number is lower based on the number of students enrolled in the school district.
Davah Germain says there were already several thousand people from Haiti when he arrived in Springfield almost two years ago, and he suspects that number might have doubled in the meantime.
“And people are still coming,” he says.
Germain left Haiti due to political issues and moved to Miami, Fla., in 1985. The 63-year-old moved to Springfield at the urging of a friend. Word is spreading about the ease in which newcomers can find jobs, particularly in manufacturing.
“They’re coming to stay,” he says. “They’re coming to make Springfield their home.” . . .
Germain . . . translates for the Springfield District Council of St. Vincent de Paul.
Peggy Johnson is a longtime volunteer with the council, and she oversees its community navigator program to help the local Haitian and Hispanic communities.
“I applied for a grant last year when I started to see a lot of Haitians moving into town,” she says.
That $10,000 grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, along with another $10,000 from a private organization in Springfield, is helping the program fund 20 hours of services each week. The organization also now has two Haitians employed who speak Haitian Creole and Spanish. The extra services started in September.

You see? According to the school system official, as recently as 2018, Springfield didn’t have any Haitians, but by 2022, the number had reached an estimated 7,500, and now it’s believed to be at least 15,000. And the city did everything to assist and support the Haitians, effectively encouraging still more to come. The Biden administration’s decision to grant TPS to all Haitians — no matter how they got into the country — means that no Haitian can be deported, and every Haitian in the country is now eligible for employment, Social Security cards, Medicaid, etc. The liberals in Springfield, the ones who made Warren Copeland the city’s mayor for nearly 30 years, voted for this policy. They approved it.

And then in 2023, a child suffered the consequences:

Aidan Clark

A Haitian man charged with causing a bus crash in which 11-year-old Aiden Clark was killed and more than two dozen other students were injured was previously caught and released at the US border.
Hermanio Joseph, 35, was driving with an invalid license when his Honda Odyssey minivan veered over the center line and collided with a Northwestern Local Schools bus on Troy Road in Lawrenceville, Ohio, on August 22. . . .
Aiden was ejected from the bus and was pronounced dead at the scene. Another student suffered life-threatening injuries and 26 children sustained minor injuries. . . .
Joseph and his passenger, Roberto Mompremier, 37, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to hospital for treatment.
He produced a Mexican driver’s license to Ohio State Highway Patrol officers at the scene but this was invalid due to his immigration status.
Joseph is registered as a Haitian immigrant in the state of Florida and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman confirmed he arrived at the US-Mexico border in August 2022.
He was given notice to appear in federal immigration court by the Department of Homeland Security before he was released under the Biden Administration’s border policies.

Hermanio Joseph

So never mind if Haitians are eating cats, because the fact is that Haitians are killing actual human beings, including this 11-year-old kid from Lawrenceville, a crossroads about 7 miles north of Springfield.

It was not Aidan Clark’s fault that the Biden administration adopted a “catch-and-release” policy for illegal immigrants. It was not Aidan Clark’s policy that the liberals in Springfield welcomed thousands of Haitians to their city. Hermanio Joseph has been sentenced to prison, but this hardly suffices to clear the blood-guilt for Aidan Clark’s death, and the people responsible are not just the residents of Springfield. Yet they have brought a curse upon their city, which I expect will soon cease to be recognizable as an American city. Springfield, Ohio, is going to turn into a cesspool of misery, bearing no resemblance to what it was when the first Haitians arrived there. This sad fate is not something I approve — were it in my power, I would prevent it– but at the same time, I cannot deny that it is what Springfield deserves. They have invited their own destruction.

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In The Mailbox: 09.10.24 (Morning Edition)

Posted on | September 10, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.10.24 (Morning Edition)

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Last day for the BasedCon Based Book Sale!
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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: DOJ Spokesman Admits: Democrat Alvin Bragg’s Prosecution of Trump is a Perversion of Justice, also, Listen To Hayek
Twitchy: J.D. Vance Absolutely Torches The Left Over Springfield OH, Post From Smiley Leftist Was So Racist I Had To Check To See If It Was Parody, and Scott Jennings Turns CNN Harpy Into Babbling Mess Over Trump’s “Extreme Agenda”
Louder With Crowder: Springfield, Ohio Residents Warn Haitians Are Decapitating Ducks And Eating Them
Vox Popoli: Reading the Tea Leaves, The Trials of Torba, Living While Vaxxed, How to Get Your Ship Sunk, and They Always Kill the Golden Goose
Postcards From Barsoom: To Shatter Men’s Souls, 
Stoic Observations: Peasant Theory Explained, also, Incubate Debate – An AntidoteTo GenZ Mind Poisoning
Upstream Reviews: Never Again, 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Not All Who Say “Lord, Lord!”
Gab: The Urgent Need For Courage

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
CDR Salamander: September Free For All  – On Midrats, also, The Army Cut A Spruance DD Into 16 Bits
Dana Loesch: Last Week In Legal – The Gang’s All Here
Don Surber: What happened to DEI and LGBT?
Michelle Catalano: the week in joy
Protein Wisdom Reborn: Notes From A Cluttered Mind
STUMP: Minnesota Hodgepodge, 

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Rule 5 Sunday: Sunday Morning Coffee

Posted on | September 9, 2024 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Sunday Morning Coffee

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I don’t know where he finds them, but Rule 5 Texan gets the best baristas.
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ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule 5 State of the Race Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday ight Girls With Guns, Michigan’s Partisan Secretary of State Gets Spanked, La Strada, Kacey Musgraves, Sweden’s Deputy PM, A Quiet Place Day One, Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin Reunion, Queens, The Fall Guy, Preppers, and “Candle In The Wind”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Nicole Chamoun, Fish Pic Friday – Amber Lorraine, Tattoo Thursday, Beloved Russian Spy Whale Dies Near Norway, The Wednesday Wetness, Maryland, My Maryland, Tuesday Tanlines, Flotsam and Jetsam, The Monday Morning Stimulus and Palm Sunday

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. for September 6

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FMJRA 2.0: Is It October Yet?

Posted on | September 8, 2024 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Is It October Yet?

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The Big BasedCon Book Sale – Over 1100 sold so far!
The less said about this week’s series against St. Louis & Cleveland, the better. We were 1-5 on the week and are now 63-85, three games behind the A’s in the cellar of our division. Speaking of the A’s, we’ll be heading for Oakland Tuesday for a three game series and then coming home for three games against the Dodgers. The following week, we host Boston and the O’s (just two games), and finish the season at home against the Pirates.
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Rule Five Sunday: My Next Ex-Wife
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In The Mailbox: 09.02.24
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Rhanni Davis Charged With Four Murders on Suburban Chicago Commuter Train
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Top linkers for the week ending September 6, 2024:

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Thought Criminal: Eric Weinstein

Posted on | September 7, 2024 | Comments Off on Thought Criminal: Eric Weinstein

In 1992, Eric Weinstein got a Ph.D. in mathematical physics from Harvard University and then did what any truly smart Harvard Ph.D. would do — he got rich working for hedge funds. This makes him the kind of role model I’d like my kids to emulate. One of my sons is a top student at his law school and I keep telling him it doesn’t matter what niche of the profession he pursues. The important thing is to become a rich lawyer.

Eric’s brother Brett Weinstein made headlines by resigning (along with his wife, Heather Heying) from Evergreen College in the wake of the college’s “Day of Absence” controversy. So the whole family is part of The Rebellion against the Empire of Woke, but I hadn’t paid much attention until last night when, by the mysterious voodoo of the algorithm, YouTube suggested I watch Chris Williamson’s interview with Eric Williamson and — wow! Mind-blowing genius on display.

The full interview is three-and-a-half hours long, and maybe you don’t have time to watch the whole thing, but here’s a 10-minute clip about Big Tech trying to influence the 2024 presidential election:



 

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In The Mailbox: 09.06.24

Posted on | September 7, 2024 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.06.24

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The Big BasedCon Based Book Sale Is On!
Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
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OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Operation Praying Mantis – “Proportional Response”, Your Password Security Is Weak Sauce, 
EBL: Kamala Harris: Dangerously Liberal, also, Partisan Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson Reversed by Michigan Court of Appeals
Twitchy: WaPo Pumps Out A Pardon-Prepping Puff Piece Painting Hunter Biden As A Heroic Victim, Oh? THAT Dick Cheney? and She’s So Bad At This
Louder With Crowder: Exclusive: DOJ Chief of Public Affairs Admits Trump Indictments a ‘Perversion of Justice’; Reveals Lawfare Involved, “Election interference, is there any doubt?”, “I thought he was racist”, and Watch Mark Cuban meltdown when CNBC challenges him on Kamala’s tax plan
Vox Popoli: Synonym Not Subset, Clowns are Falling, An Incorrect Theory, Guilty as Charged, and The Evil of Copyright Stands
According To Hoyt: Why We Still Believe There Was Election Fraud in 2020 – Tom Kratman, Politics and Religion, and The Psyop Inside the Psyop
Monster Hunter Nation: Mountain of Fire, by Jason Cordova – Out Now
Upstream Reviews: Riptide
Gab: A Forged Warrant For My Arrest Is Going Viral Online, 
Defending The Wood Perilous: Gypsy Princess Effie’s Diary #8 – Bringing One-Eyed Joe Home
Stoic Observations: Hamas One Month Before 10/7, 

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: How to Destroy Their Democracies
American Conservative: World War II Revisionism Doesn’t Have to Be Dumb
American Greatness: The 2024 Democrat Presidential Ticket that was Twenty Years in the Making, FBI Had Georgia Shooter on Radar for Over One Year, Massie Alleges FBI, CDC & Legacy Media Conspire to Hide Armed Self Defense Data, Spokesman For Manhattan US Attorney’s Office Caught on Tape Ripping DA Bragg Over Trump Prosecution, and Media Outlets Lie About J.D. Vance’s Comments on School Shootings
American Thinker: Coming Soon to a Town Near You: The Aurora Illegals Invasion
Animal Magnetism: Hunting Season Totty III, Hunting Season Totty IV, and Rule Five State of the Race Friday
Babalu Blog: Castro dictatorship cashes in on island’s water crisis, sells water bottles to parched Cubans, Florida senators question Biden-Harris expansion of visas for Cuban dictatorship officials, Cuba intensifies communist doctrinal content in first grade textbooks and onwards, and The false religion of the Cuban revolution
BattleSwarm: Ukraine Rolls Out More Drone Innovations, Hunter Biden To Plead Guilty Rather Than Face Trial, and LinkSwarm for September 6
Behind The Black: China launches third batch of 10 satellites for proposed Starlink copycat constellation, NASA confirms its giant solar sail is tumbling but doing so as planned, ESA releases images taken by BepiColombo during Mercury fly-by, Local Texas authorities fine SpaceX for dumping potable water in Boca Chica, NASA cancels launch of its two Escapade Mars Orbiters due to Blue Origin delays, and Will NASA give up on Starliner after its present contracts are completed?
Cafe Hayek: Valuation Occurs At the Margin, also, They Can’t Keep Straight Even Straightforward Facts
CDR Salamander: Hospital Ships – Always Salamander Approved, also, Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Reagan Memories, The Death Star of the Electoral System, and Visible Signs
Da Tech Guy: The Worst Part About What is Coming is That It’s been Visible for Decades, My TV told me Kamala Harris good Orange Man Bad therefore it must be true, and The #Unexpectedly Chronicles: My Shocked SHOCKED face just can’t take it California, Aurora, Joe Biden and this is FBI
Dana Loesch: Hunter Biden Pleads Guilty In Tax Case
Don Surber: Encouraged by a genuine martyr, also, They aren’t even mediocre
First Street Journal: Comrade Kamala Thinks Using The DOJ To Shut Down Free Speech Is Great, also, Bummer – Volvo Ditches 2030 Fully EV Goal
Gates Of Vienna: A Cordon Sanitaire Against the AfD in Brandenburg, Cultural Enrichment: More Lethal Than the Wall, Those Mischievous Culture-Enrichers, All Your Woman Are Belong To Us, and An Albanian Has an Allahu Akhbar Moment in Linz am Rhein
The Geller Report: Sinwar’s Secret Plan to ‘Smuggle Hostages to Iran,”
Hollywood In Toto: How Hollywood Turned Against Free Speech, Incoming Delivers R-Rated Laughs from the Past, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Brings Franchise Back from the Dead, Gwyneth Paltrow on Hamas: ‘Where Are the Feminists?’, The Dark and the Wicked Offers Sly, Slow-Burn Chills, and Babylon Bee Goes Hollywood with Jan. 6 Mockumentary
The Lid: With Concerns Over Her Flip-flopping and Lack of Leadership Some Voters are Rethinking a Harris Presidency
Legal Insurrection: The ACT College Admissions Test Making Science Section “Optional”, In Addition to Covid, Wuhan Institute of Virology May Have Released “Highly Evolved Polio Strain”, CNN Shockingly Calls Out Kamala Harris Hypocrisy Over Trump Border Wall, Newsom Vetoes Bill Allowing California Illegal Aliens to Apply for $150,000 in Home Loans, Anti-Israel Protesters Accused of Causing Millions in Damage at City College in NYC Plead Not Guilty, August: 635K Foreign-Born Workers Gained Jobs as 1.3 Million Americans Lost Jobs, and RFK Jr. Wins Appeal to Remove Name From Ballot in North Carolina
Michele Catalano: showing up
Nebraska Energy Observer: Stolen Valor and More, also, Scattershot Friday: Attacking Freedom and Freedom of Speech
Outkick: Alex Morgan Wants To Grow Women’s Sports While Also Being Pro Men In Women’s Sports – Riley Gaines Reacts, ‘We’re Gonna Kick Their Ass, Just Like Last Year’, The New York Mets Are Suddenly The Team Of Destiny, Caitlin Clark Has Big Night As Fever Blow Lead Against Minnesota Lynx, MLB Players On A’s New Sacramento Stadium: ‘It’s Going To Suck’, Stephen A. Sounds Like A Hypocrite Every Time He Talks About Skip Bayless and Max Kellerman, and Danica Patrick Surfaces At Burning Man & Might’ve Debuted A New Boyfriend, Kelce Hair Memes & Chiefs Cats
Power Line: In the Service of the PRC, Vance on Tucker, Doing the Dirty Work In Michigan, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: The Sunshine State Lives Up To Its Name
Shot In The Dark: “LOOK AT MEEEEEE!”, Pounce, A Warning, and Komissar Ellison
The Political Hat: The New Know Nothings, Quick Takes – Another Day, Another Death, and Free to Choose Friday, Revisited (Part 2)
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, Just 2 hours of online training for Donald Trump Butler agents, Vladimir Putin hinted at Kamala Harris preference, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on military issues, and Navy Recruiting Soars!
Transterrestrial Musings: EPISTEMOLOGY, Jobs, A Rare Event, The New Censorship, Jewish Democrats, Starliner Coming Home, and The Real Harris Interview
Victory Girls: Georgia School Shooter’s Father Arrested, Facing Multiple Charges
Volokh Conspiracy: QAnon “Patriot Reporter” Claims Newspaper Libeled Him by Saying He Had Admitted to “Sexual Relationship” with 15-Year-Old
Watts Up With That: AXIOS: Harris campaign dodges over EV mandate walkback, No, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t Destroying Bridges, What Junk Nutrition Science Looks Like, and Has the Electricity Reality Check Arrived?
The Federalist: Harris And Walz Avoiding The Press Isn’t A Savvy Campaign Strategy — They’re Just Cowards, Courts Order RFK Jr. To Be Removed From Ballots In North Carolina And Michigan, Desperate Democrats Are Pushing Yet Another Version Of The Russia Collusion Hoax, Democrats Are Terrified Of GOP Plan To Protect U.S. Election From Noncitizen Voting, Rings of Power Season 2 Doesn’t Take Tolkien Or Storytelling Seriously, ‘Zuckbucks’ Group Acts As A Shadow Legislature In Rural America, and Indictment Of Hochul Aide Shows Red China Is Far Greater Threat Than Kremlin Propaganda
Mark Steyn: Unspeakable Deeds, Happy Toothfish Day, and Drifting to Armageddon

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Liberals Have a Jewish Problem (and Also, Jews Have a Liberalism Problem)

Posted on | September 6, 2024 | Comments Off on Liberals Have a Jewish Problem (and Also, Jews Have a Liberalism Problem)

William Jacobson has been a friend for about 15 years, and has always been staunchly conservative. Unlike some “conservatives,” Jacobson has never flinched in his support for Donald Trump. He gets it.

Professor Jacobson teaches law at Cornell University, and has turned his Legal Insurrection blog into one of the most influential conservative sites on the Internet (and employs another of my good friends, Mike LaChance). Excuse me for being somewhat mind-boggled by idea that a lecture by such an eminent authority on campus anti-Semitism would be canceled because some liberals in the congregation were triggered by the thought of a Republican setting foot in their synagogue.

DO THESE PEOPLE NOT HAVE EYES?

How could any Jew look around at the current geopolitical landscape and conclude that it’s safe to ignore all the various threats to their existence — not just Hamas terrorists in Gaza, but also the various murderous entities backed by the Islamic radcical regime in Iran, to say nothing of Democratic primary voters in Dearborn, Michigan — because Trump is the real danger? What kind of cocoon are these people living in?

A mindless allegiance to the Democratic Party? A quasi-religious devotion to the Cult of Equality? What can possibly explain this seemingly suicidal mentality among liberal Jews?

David Horowitz examined these issues in Radical Son, and the question was addressed directly by Norman Podhoretz: Why Are Jews Liberals?

At a time when organized liberalism has increasingly embraced Jew-haters (e.g., Ilhan Omar, to say nothing of Democratic primary voters in Dearborn), I wish there could be more discussion of this issue.



 

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