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Donald Trump’s Going Full Antisemitic Again.
Surprise, surprise.
It wouldn’t be a Donald Trump campaign without some antisemitism now would it? At this point, it’s difficult to deny that antisemitism is the bread and butter of the far right, and of course Trump’s going to dive right into it. This time, he did so with a flyer.
Mariana Alfaro with The Washington Post writes:
“On the final day of the Jewish New Year celebration, former president Donald Trump shared a flier on social media accusing “liberal Jews” who didn’t support him of having voted “to destroy America & Israel.”
In a post Sunday on Truth Social, his social media platform, the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner added a flier created by the organization JEXIT — a group that seeks to draw Jewish voters away from the Democratic Party. Text featured in the flier appears on the group’s Facebook and Instagram pages…”
Yeah, I’d say that’s pretty bad.
If there’s any safe assumption we can make about right wing politicians and even many Democratic politicians as well, it’s that they’ll say things they don’t actually mean in order to garner attention and favor with the base. Right wing politicians don’t care about abortion, and many Democrats could not care less if there’s a minimum wage increase. But, in this…