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Look, whether u are a dem or not the unavoidable truth is that the DNC is currently doing more than the RNC to normalize the mistreatment of Jews. Ironic given the historic support from Jews for the DNC, but there you have it. The campaign math is pretty simple Jews are about 2% of the US public and falling while Muslims are currently almost 2% of the US public and the fastest growing religion worldwide. There is also, I believe, a sense within the DNC that Jews have nowhere to go. That they have for so long been a stalwart of the DNC that a little normalized prejudice against them won't send them running to the RNC.
Among most of my Jewish family and friends this is proving to be correct, in that many cannot see themselves as republicans after being lifelong loyal dems, even as they acknowledge and even fear the antisemitic direction the DNC has increasingly followed. But among younger Jewish people I'm seeing a willingness to consider options outside the DNC. And of course, it goes without saying that the RNC is not a completely safe refuge for the Jews. The Charlottesville fiasco and Trump's dinner with Fuentes and Kayne are but two obvious examples of the problems Jews ought to have with that party.
But in a world of two lousy choices for American Jews and in which historically most Jews leaned to the DNC it stands to reason that over time that we will see a relative exodus of Jews out of the DNC and into the RNC. Or maybe more accurately a evening out of the distribution of Jews supporting the RNC and the DNC, which is a voter net loss to the DNC I believe the DNC is well aware of this and their campaign math tells them this is an acceptable loss.
It does however put American Jews in a unique position, since they are no longer electorally needed by the DNC (at least mathematically if not in terms of monetary support) and yet they are not a meaningful enough electoral block for the RNC to pick up so as to warrant policies that would make their party uniquely attractive to Jews. So Jews are somewhat uniquely in America, a demographic without a party vying for them. And this I believe is why it is uniquely the Jews who can be publicly discriminated against without real political ramifications. This is pretty easy to prove. The next time you hear a statement like the one John king made on CNN recently about Harris perhaps not selecting josh Shapiro as a VP because he is a Jew, think about whether he could have said such a thing about any other religious or racial or other demographic and not have been excoriated if not fired. The fact is, what King said is true. Democrats would have a hard time running a Jew, but if you swap out any other minority, while the statement may remain true, it is not one that could be made publicly without significant political repercussions.