(Jewish Group) Trump seems to think he can badger Jewish voters into backing him

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Donald Trump seems to believe he's entitled to greater support from Jewish voters. The more they disagree, the more he feels justified in lashing out.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-seems-think-can-badger-jewish-voters-backing-rcna147425

Revisiting our earlier coverage, Donald Trump seems to believe that he took a series of steps he considered pro-Israel, with the expectation that he’d receive an electoral reward from Jewish voters. When they largely stuck with Democrats anyway, Trump deemed them ungrateful.

This attitude continues to produce ugly results. Last summer, for example, the Republican used his social media platform to share a missive that accused “liberal Jews” of voting to “destroy” America and Israel. Last month, as NBC News reported, Trump went further, invoking a dual loyalty trope by claiming that Jewish voters who support Democrats “hate Israel.”.....

A day later, as a New York Times report noted, he kept the offensive going.

Former President Donald J. Trump once again criticized Jews who back Democratic candidates on Wednesday, saying that “any Jewish person that votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined.”

The Republican went on to insist that Biden, who’s faced fierce criticisms for his support of Israel, has “totally abandoned Israel.”

Stepping back, Trump seems convinced that if he simply badgers Jewish voters enough, maybe they’ll change their minds and support his candidacy......

The more Jews back Biden, the more the former president feels justified lashing out at those who’ve failed to meet his expectations. If Trump believes this will convince Jewish voters to change their political views, he’s likely to be disappointed.

I admit that I am amused when TFG attacks Jewish voters for not supporting him

[agingdem]

1. Trump, who dined with raging Jew-haters Nick Fuentes ( "Jews should be executed")

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and Kanye West ( “Death Con 3 on the Jewish people”) thinks shaming Jews into voting for Trump, a vile antisemite, is the path to capturing the Jewish vote..the same vile antisemite who said torch-carrying Nazis shouting “Jews will not replace us” are “very fine people”…the same vile antisemite who said evangelical rapture Christians (Jews of Israel must accept Jesus or die) loves Israel more than American Jews..and, yet, Trump, that same vile antisemite, is shocked Jews overwhelmingly vote Democrat….how is that possible???

[Stargazer99]

2. Oh you Jews are not behaving like they want you to

considering what they did to the Jews in the Second World war -the world should be surprised

[JoseBalow]

3. Everything is transactional. If you don't benefit him, fuck you

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. The fact that a large majority of Jews do not buy what TFG is selling is what pisses TFG off

TFG thinks that if TFG makes his evangelical base happy, then Jews should also be happy. The support of Israel by TFG's evengelical base is based on their hope for an apocalypse or second coming.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/apocalypse-another-disturbing-reason-behind-right-wings-pro-israel-obsession/

Politics professor Elizabeth Oldmixon explained in an interview with Vox the strange thread of Christianity that fosters an apocalyptic vision the inspires much of the right-wing support for Israel.

“These are the folks who believe that there will be a millennium in the future, a golden age, where Christ reigns on Earth, [and] they believe that before Christ will return, there will be a tribulation where Christ defeats evil,” she said. “There will be natural disasters and wars, and perhaps an Antichrist, as the book of Revelations notes. Then at the end of that period, the people of the Mosaic covenant, including the Jews, will convert. Then after their conversion, the great millennium starts.”

She continued: “You have this group of people looking around for signs of the end time, and in the 20th century when Israel was founded, this was seen as a major sign. This was electrifying for that community because the gathering of all the Jews in exile to the Holy Land is a prerequisite for all of these events unfolding. So for the subset of evangelicals in the 20th century, support for Israel became a really, really important political position.”

And as evangelical Christianity grew into a central part of the GOP’s coalition, pro-Israel policies became cemented in the party’s ideology.

The alliance between the evangelicals and pro-Israeli Jews, though, is a peculiar partnership. The Christians enter into the bargain with the assumption that, when they reach their goal of the apocalypse, any Jews will either become Christians or go to hell. But their pro-Israel allies don’t seem to mind this much, perhaps because they don’t believe this version of the apocalypse will ever actually come to be — and as long as it is just a fantasy, their interests and those of evangelicals remain aligned.

American Jews and supporters of Israel are aware of the reason why these religious nut jobs are supporting Israel. Israel needs all of the help it can get and so Jews and Israel plays on and uses these religious nut jobs. TFG is confused by the fact that Jews do not share the goals of TFG's evangelical base and are not appreciative of TFG's efforts to appease the evangelical nut cases.