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President Donald Trump is coming under heavy criticism for a comment he made during a White House pool spray Tuesday afternoon in which he called American Jews who vote for Democrats either ignorant or disloyal.
I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty, Trump said from the Oval Office.
In the 2018 midterms, according to the Pew Research Center, 79 percent of Jewish Americans voted Democratic in their local House race. In 2016, 71 percent voted for Hillary Clinton, compared to 24 percent for the president.
The condemnation was swift and bipartisan.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-called-out-for-deriding-most-jews-in-america-as-ignorant-or-disloyal-blatantly-anti-semitic/ar-AAG4Uox?li=BBnb7Kz
underpants
(182,883 posts)Total obedience and dependence on him is his bubble. His kids are a perfect example. Not one of them has strayed away to get their own life. He pits people against each other for his amusement.
As a campaign ploy this is him trying to establish that not supporting him is unpatriotic....like how he supported Obama.
bluedigger
(17,087 posts)After all, when has accusing Jews of disloyalty ever ended badly?
Vinca
(50,304 posts)Caliman73
(11,744 posts)Jewish people, like all people have left leaning, moderates, and conservatives. Typically more left leaning but still. The Democratic party has always been a coalition of marginalized groups along with a liberal White base. The Democrats have always offered more in terms of policy to poor and middle income earners with Republicans catering to mainly the wealthy.
I am not understanding who Jewish people are supposed to be loyal to and why.