The Shame: When People Have To Arm Themselves Thanks To Trump’s Anti-Semitic Supporters
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It’s not fair to paint all of Donald Trump’s supporters as knuckle-dragging morons. I know some good people who support him and I have friends who have family members who support him. It’s no fun but it is a reality. That said, there is also an underbelly of Trump supporters who don’t necessarily line up behind Trump, but seem him as a vehicle for their own agenda. This would include various white nationalists, many of whom are anti-Semites.
Trump has managed to create a climate where white people can actually claim a form of victim-hood. Twenty years ago, when welfare reform was a thing, many of the same people who support Trump now, were happy to tell others (particularly minorities) to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” and “get to work.” Things have changed since then. The global economy has shifted the US workforce to a more service and tech oriented culture. Job growth under President Obama has been tepid at best. The low unemployment rate does not account for those who simply have given up looking for work and GDP during the last eight years as been anemic.
People are looking for somebody to blame and Donald Trump came along to give people the direction they needed. Trump has made his entire campaign blaming Mexico and China for the US economic woes. He’s talking about tariffs and building walls and in doing so, has allowed people to openly display their resentment towards immigrants and a changing world economy. He’s used terror attacks to throw a blanket over the entire Muslim community, turning them all into either terrorists or enablers of terrorism.
It was only a matter of time before Trump supporters started pointing the finger of blame at another group – Jewish people. Donald Trump himself hasn’t gone in that direction. However, he has sat back and not said anything to dissuade his supporters from engaging in such ugliness or to separate himself from it.
This is where people say, “C’mon Jay. This is a very small subsection of Trump supporters and it’s mostly just random people online.” That’s a bunch of nonsense. While it’s true many of these idiots are go-along young morons with no life who spend most of their time on 4chan, enough of them exist that people truly feel threatened enough to take action. People like Bethany Mandel:
Mandel, 30, is an Orthodox Jew and conservative writer for prominent Jewish and conservative publications who has vociferously opposed, particularly on Twitter, the candidacy of Donald Trump.
And that’s why she had to buy a gun.
Mandel estimates she has faced thousands of anti-Semitic messages online, mostly from self-identified white nationalists who are passionate Trump supporters — as made clear by their exhortations to “make America great again” and the Trump imagery in their user profiles. The messages she has received (“Die, you deserve to be in an oven,” for example) are tame compared to the pictures (Mandel’s face superimposed on that of a Holocaust victim).
Mandel is far from alone. An old argument has been rebooted for a new political age: Jews are destroying the country, and only Trump can stop their malevolent hold over media, business and government.
Mandel said Trump first went after the “easy targets in our culture” — Mexicans and Muslims. Then some of his supporters turned on the Jews. “We have to speak up,” she said. “And I feel this as a Jew…Because I knew they were coming after us next. And I was right.”
She’s not exaggerating. I’ve seen this. One of the more prominent targets of Trump’s anti-semitic following is conservative, and Jew, Ben Shapiro. I’ve been RT’ed by Ben on a number of occasions. When he did, my mentions would immediately be filled with some of the nastiest anti-Semitic imagery and rhetoric one can imagine.
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Feigning ignorance is the hallmark of cowards. That’s Donald Trump.
Nobody expects him to put a stop to it. People are going to do what they want to do. But he could easily say, “I want nothing to do with those people. They don’t represent me or the ideas I have at all.” But that would mean pushing away people who like him. And his own ego won’t allow that.
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The Shame: When People Have To Arm Themselves Thanks To Trump’s Anti-Semitic Supporters https://t.co/4wD2fLwU75
— RedState (@RedState) June 28, 2016
She has our boy figured out.
This doesn’t surprise me. What does is that real Christian leaders should be distancing themselves from Trump, but seem glued to him. Those who supported him over Cruz refuse to back down, to their shame. I will not forget this, myself. It is time that we take notice of the sellouts and pray for them, but they also need to not be supported any longer…their ministries, that it. To think that any of my money given to them would go to their support of Trump is unconscionable. I’m holding money back from Gary Bauer right now, until after the election because his last email said we need to do what we can to help. SORRY, but I think he needs to fail significantly badly. He is taking down the conservative base and we should NOT be supporting that. IN NO WAY!
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
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