I wrote it on Tuesday, before Mueller Time.
War in the Democratic Party, Republicans on
Hind Legs, Some Jews are Tired of Being Used
By Norm Scott
“It’s an almost incalculable
insult for Trump and his enablers to act as if he’s helping the Jews when he
adopts the language of the pogrom.” Michelle Goldberg, NYT.
Before we get to that, let’s
talk Dem and Rep Parties. Many of us on the sidelines of the Party wars have
pretty much come to the conclusion that Trump will win again and the
repercussions will be heavy for the Party and of course for the country. We can
pretty much give up the fight against climate change and figure out ways to
hunker down for the next century. Water taxis on 5th Avenue, anyone?
As for the future of Rockaway, fagetaboutit. Sorry to be such a bummer. Maybe
Elon Musk has it right: Look to Mars where there is little chance for oceans
rising unless you read the best science fiction from Kim Stanley Robinson,
“Mars Trilogy.”
After Trump, the Republicans
and the right wing media are finished count the democratic institutions left
standing. Why should this country be different than all the others moving to
the right? (See HBO chiller, Years and Years). Remember how Giuliani, another
despot, tried to use 9/11 as an excuse to remain mayor for an illegal third
term and was laughed at? Times have changed. Let’s be more like Trump’s hero
Putin. Pass the presidency on to the first woman president, Ivanka, in 2024 – unless
Trump wants a third term. Create an emergency and suspend the constitution. And
watch strict constitutionalist Republicans get up on their hind legs and beg
for more. Remember how they fought Obama on everything over the deficit? Pathetic.
For some insight into the
internal mechanisms of the factionalism in the Dem Party see the left-leaning
Nation which delves into the battle between Pelosi and the Squad.
Another article in the
liberal New Yorker by investigative reporter Jane Meyer took the Dems to task
for Al Franken’s forced resignation from the Senate over a #metoo incident that
on further examination seemed to have elements of a right wing hit job but many
Dems jumped on the issue in order to be politically correct. Is there such a
thing as due process? Franken wanted a Senate committee on ethics to examine
the facts but that idea was not supported by the Dems. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
who led the charge has suffered a lot of blow back which has helped make her
irrelevant in her presidential bid. Chuck Shumer, unsurprisingly, was one of
the biggest betrayers. I’m so proud of our backstabbing NY senators. If you
want some deep insight, long but worthwhile: https: www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al-franken.
So there is more than a bit
of disgust among Democrats in their own party.
Republicans don’t have to worry because even if video emerged of Trump
engaging in certain acts with Jeffrey Epstein teens they would be fine with it.
A video did emerge of the two of them smirking and joking over some models at a
party at Mar-A-Lago. Remember, Trump barely knows him. What a joke most
Republicans and Evangelicals are.
And how about them Jews who
support Trump? If they are not chilled by “send her back” they need some
history lessons. There are a couple of interesting articles about anti-semites
on the right calling out the left as being anti-semitic. Like you can’t be
critical of the right wing Israeli government. #freespeech1stamendment.
A friend, a Jew who was
active in the Dem Party and until recently hadn’t been very conscious about his
Jewishness for 50 years, wrote on FB: “after a fleet of Republicans and the
president himself have utilized Jews as human shields for racist rhetoric, the
Jews are tired, tired, tired of being used as defenses against naked racism,
tired of being used to justify conditions at detention camps.” He was referring
to an article in GQ by Talia Levin: When
Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield: In recent weeks, some
Republicans have raised the specter of anti-Semitism as a convenient
distraction from detention camps and racist tropes. And the Jews are tired of
it. https://www.gq.com/story/anti-semitism-political-shield.
Michelle Goldberg in the NYT
struck a similar theme, pointing to neo-Nazis like Simon Gorka daring to call
people anti-semitic: Defenders of a Racist President Use Jews as Human Shields
https://www.nytimes.com/.../opinion/trump-ilhan-omar.html.
She opens with: “Sebastian Gorka, a onetime adviser to Donald Trump, wore a
medal from the Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group historically aligned with Nazism,
to one of Trump’s inaugural balls. Gorka was reportedly a member of the group,
whose founder, the Hungarian autocrat Miklos Horthy, once said, ‘For all my
life, I have been an anti-Semite’.”
On a lighter note, there was a
joke going around that Trump’s “send her back” was referring to his wives. I’m
looking forward to being sent back when they come for me because my mom came from
Bellarus. I hear they have fine ocean beaches there despite being a land-locked
country and a wonderful dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, for Trump to admire who’s
been in office for 25 years.
Norm’s still blogs at
ednotesonline.com, when he’s not busy packing.
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