2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: And FYI? Voting for a racist asshole makes you a racist asshole. Even if you lost yr job. [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(100,322 posts)As you know I am part Jewish. Every single one of my Jewish American friends are anti-Trump and virulently so. Ironically many of the Israeli ex pats in America I meet are pro-Trump. That disappoints me !!! The research suggests Israelis were pretty split on Trump and Clinton with slightly more favoring her. However almost every Israeli I met who has emigrated to America likes Trump. I try to tell them they are allying themselves with someone who is embraced by anti-semites and white nationalists.
I have a lot of secular Muslim friends ( oxymoron) . They are attached to Islam in the same loose way that many Jews are, because they were born into a Jewish home. We joke how Trump has bought Muslims and Jews together.
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This wasn't in my my original message.
No group is monolithic. There are always lost individuals who vote against the interest of the groups they belong to. Hillary beat Trump 74-19 among Jewish Americans. She walloped him. Most of us can see a bigot a mile away !!!. We know in our kishkes someone who doesn't like blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, gays, et cetera probably doesn't like us very much either. Yet 19% of Jewish Americans allied themselves with a man whose followers post memes of Trump leading his Jewish opponents into gas chambers.