Timothy Birdnow

The Democrats are losing the Jewish vote.

According to Don Surber,

"Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio is the latest to learn that feuding with Donald Trump always backfires.

Brown spoke to Zionist Organization of America last week, and trashed Trump.

The group blasted Brown afterward.

Brown likely faces Republican Joshua Mandel next year in a rematch of their 2012 battle, which Brown won 51% to 45%. Mandel is Jewish, so it made sense for Brown to speak to a Jewish group.

Unless of course you insult the group.

Formed as the Federation of American Zionists in 1897, the Zionist Organization of America was pro-Israeli 51 years before the United Nations recognized the state of Israel.

In a speech to the group, Brown decided to attack President Trump and his White House.

"There are a whole lot of members in the Senate, in both parties, that are very concerned about the bigotry and the anti-Semitism in the White House," Brown told the group.

Evidently, Brown thought he was talking to idiots.

Trump is the first president who has a daughter and grandchildren who are Jewish. He is very pro-Israel as well.

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It gets worse for the Democrats; despite efforts to smear Steve Bannon as "alt-right", a bigot, and yet bannon came from Breitbart, whose founde3r was a proud Jew.

Now, the Jewish vote - and plenty of Jewish money - has traditionally gone to the Democrats, but the Donkeys have done much to anger the Jewish vote in recent years. They support returning Israel to the pre-1967 border. They supported the Palestinians over the Jews. They support the anti-Semitic Black Lives Matter.

According to the Jewish paper Algemeiner:

"According to exit polls, 71% of American Jews voted for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, while only 24% backed her Republican opponent Donald Trump. Though Haaretz described the outcome as a reflection of overwhelming Jewish support for Clinton, the truth is the opposite. Jews rejected her in extraordinary numbers and may have contributed to her defeat in battleground states with large Jewish populations.

Just as the press misjudged the general population before Tuesday, so too did it miscalculate the Jewish vote. Take some of the headlines prior to Election Day, such as the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s "Anti-Semitism unleashed by Trump followers chills Jewish voters,” or The Atlantic’s, "Has Trump Driven Jews Away From the Republican Party?”"

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Still, Jews deserted Clinton in droves. Yes, she won a substantial majority, but all the previous Democratic candidates, going back to her husband, did much better, with Bill’s 80% share of the Jewish vote in 1992 significantly higher. After 1992, Clinton followed that up with a 78% in his second campaign. Gore and Kerry lost despite getting 79% and 76% of the vote, respectively. Jews saw great promise in Obama and rewarded him with 78% of their vote, but the perception that he was perhaps the most anti-Israel president in history drove that total down dramatically to 69% in 2012. Thus, the pro-Israel Clinton didn’t do much better than the Democrat viewed as hostile to Israel.

Put bluntly, Clinton’s share of the Jewish vote was not good. Did it cost her the election? Probably not, since she underperformed with so many other constituencies and, in many respects, ran a terrible campaign, but losing Jews certainly didn’t help her in states such as Florida, Pennsylvania or Ohio."

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Why?

Well, Hillary was center stage in the U.S. foreign policy where America switched sides. Known for having a very close Muslim aid (a bit too close, in fact) Hillary has also supported the Muslim Brotherhood. So did her party.

Clearly, something must be done to shore up the Jewish vote.

So they started the "alt-right" campaign. Now, it is pretty obvious that few on the Right are anti-Semitic and the Democrats know that. On the contrary, the Right Wing is far more supportive of Israel and Jews than are Democrats.

That is why, in my opinion, we have this tempest over the selfie made by a GOP Congressman in front of Auschwitz; they need to make the Jews angry at the GOP. I think it is behind this attack by liberals on the staffer of a Missouri State Senator who compared abortion to the Holocaust. I suspect we are going to such much more of this in the near term.

The reality is we are witnessing the return of the swastika in this world, and I would be very nervous if I were a Jew. And the rising tide of anti-Semitism is tied directly and indirectly to the policies that were advocated under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - and by the Democratic Party today.

The Democrats have demanded Israel not make Jerusalem her capital, and that a Palestinian state be allowed to make East Jerusalem hers. Obama funded Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Democrats pushed for the overthrow of the Syrian government, creating the ISIS crisis. Hillary was at the heart of this.

American Jews are perhaps starting to realize that the people who really are their friends - Evangelical Christians, Republicans, conservatives - support them while their erstwhile Progressive buddies actually do not and that the rising tide of hatred toward Jews is coming from the Progressive side.

So watch for more attacks on Republicans in days to come as the Democrats, desperate to shore up their support among their base, try to fool the Jews into believing Republicans are Klansmen in gray flannel suits.

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