On a day in which Donald Trump gained the stamp of approval of House Speaker Paul Ryan, he added to another dark chapter of his candidacy by upping his attacks on the heritage of a judge in a case involving Trump University.
Specifically, Trump told the Wall Street Journal that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel had an “absolute conflict” overseeing the case because of his “Mexican heritage” and his membership to a Latino lawyers’ association.
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As an American Jew, I’m certainly familiar with the age old dual-loyalty smear. Though American Jews are supposed to somehow feel safe in Trump’s America, reassured as if Ivanka Trump were a modern day Queen Esther, Trump could just as easily be arguing that a Jewish judge is against him because he refuses to be beholden to Jewish donors. Or an American Asian judge is against him because he wants to get tough on China. Or an Irish Catholic judge is against him because of his attacks on Pope Francis. Effectively, anybody who isn’t a white Protestant of European ancestry can be a target of Trump’s ethnic and racial attacks.
This stuff stopped being funny a long time ago.
But what’s incredibly scary is that Trump has not only won the Republican nomination, but that leaders who should know better have fallen in line behind him.
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Every Republican who endorses Trump has hate on their hands.
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In Trump's America, Jews are supposed to feel safe due to the idea that Ivanka will be a modern Queen Esther https://t.co/FOeF96qtTU
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) June 3, 2016
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