Jewish Democrat and former member of the House endorses Trump

Here’s the story:

Peter Deutsch, a former Democratic congressman from Florida, endorsed former President Donald Trump on Monday, citing concerns over Israel’s security as the top issue motivating his decision.

“I feel very comfortable today publicly announcing that I’m endorsing Donald Trump to be reelected as president and I’m planning on voting for him on Nov. 5,” Deutsch said during a press call hosted by the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee to commemorate Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.

Deutsch, who splits his time between Israel and Florida and served in Congress from 1993 to 2005, expressed particular approval of Trump’s hard-line approach to Iran, including recent remarks in which the former president rebutted President Joe Biden in saying Israel should strike the country’s nuclear facilities.

By contrast, he argued, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have pursued policies that have emboldened Iran even after its ballistic missile strike on Israel last week.

“Their policies towards Iran make the world a dramatically less safe place,” Deutsch, who is Jewish, said in his brief remarks during the call. “It’s not just about what is happening in the Middle East. It’s literally about the homeland. It’s about Israel. Iran, their enemy is not just Israel — their enemy remains the United States. They still want to destroy the United States.”

Seems like a reasonable position to me on the part of Deutsch. I doubt he’s alone, either. But he is no longer in office, and so he’s free to depart from the party line with no loss of assistance from those in the party who decide where the money and other support will be going.

Then again, it might be a good idea for him to hire an excellent lawyer. There is the cautionary tale of Mayor Adams of New York, who strayed from the party line. I’m pretty much in agreement with Barnes in this video on the arrest of Adams, such is my cynicism these days:

Kim Strassel, WSJ podcast interviews Mike Doran on and about the anniversary of Oct. 7th, the Obama-Biden foreign policy, KamalaHuakTuah2024 prospects, Trump prospects, alternatives, and so on. Transcript and audio both available the link: https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/all-things-with-kim-strassel-oct-7-one-year-later/d11dfcb5-8570-4254-b33d-7a6eb880efc2

A quote to the point:

Kim Strassel: I think we do need a much larger strategic vision. Last question here just about the state of American politics in general when it comes to Israel. I have been utterly disturbed over the past year in particular since October 7th, some divisions and cracks we are seeing mostly within the Democratic Party, somewhat less in the Republican Party, an anti-Israel feeling that has been growing. Obviously, on the Democratic side, it’s been there for a while, but as a progressive wing has really gained a voice, Democratic leaders have seemed to feel necessary to cater to it. So I mean, you end up with the sight of Chuck Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish politician in the country, essentially openly feuding with Bibi Netanyahu, Kamala Harris refusing to attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress, statements that throw shade on him. A little bit on the Republican side, too much less so. But how concerned are you by this fall off? I mean, this was always sort of something that Americans in both parties agreed on. That’s certainly shifted. How worried are you about that and what do we do to fix it?

Michael Doran: I’m really worried about it, but I worry about it not just because of my concerns about the Middle East. This is a progressive foreign policy. This is progressivism. They’ve been teaching this in the universities for three or four decades, and this is just standard. All of the Hamas raping and killing is just a legitimate resistance of occupation and resistance of settler colonialism and so on and so forth. That’s what every undergraduate gets in American universities at the Ivy League level. And so the hatred of Israel is really a hatred of the American system itself. It’s the same thing, and we’re kidding ourselves. There’s something pathological about a society that teaches its elite to hate itself. That’s what we’re witnessing here. It’s just that Israel right now is the licit target of this self-loathing that we are inculcating in our own elite.

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Jewish Democrat and former member of the House endorses Trump — 2 Comments

Kate on October 9, 2024 at 2:59 pm said:

YouTube is giving me the “sign in to prove you’re not a bot” message again, and I’ve seen it other places, Neo, so I don’t think it’s your coding that’s doing it.

It’s clear to anyone looking objectively that challenging the progressive party line can come with “Justice” repercussions. Not that Adams didn’t do what he’s charged with; I don’t know; but why the charges now?
sdferr on October 9, 2024 at 3:47 pm said:

Kim Strassel, WSJ podcast interviews Mike Doran on and about the anniversary of Oct. 7th, the Obama-Biden foreign policy, KamalaHuakTuah2024 prospects, Trump prospects, alternatives, and so on. Transcript and audio both available the link: https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-potomac-watch/all-things-with-kim-strassel-oct-7-one-year-later/d11dfcb5-8570-4254-b33d-7a6eb880efc2

A quote to the point:

Kim Strassel: I think we do need a much larger strategic vision. Last question here just about the state of American politics in general when it comes to Israel. I have been utterly disturbed over the past year in particular since October 7th, some divisions and cracks we are seeing mostly within the Democratic Party, somewhat less in the Republican Party, an anti-Israel feeling that has been growing. Obviously, on the Democratic side, it’s been there for a while, but as a progressive wing has really gained a voice, Democratic leaders have seemed to feel necessary to cater to it. So I mean, you end up with the sight of Chuck Schumer, the highest ranking Jewish politician in the country, essentially openly feuding with Bibi Netanyahu, Kamala Harris refusing to attend Netanyahu’s address to Congress, statements that throw shade on him. A little bit on the Republican side, too much less so. But how concerned are you by this fall off? I mean, this was always sort of something that Americans in both parties agreed on. That’s certainly shifted. How worried are you about that and what do we do to fix it?

Michael Doran: I’m really worried about it, but I worry about it not just because of my concerns about the Middle East. This is a progressive foreign policy. This is progressivism. They’ve been teaching this in the universities for three or four decades, and this is just standard. All of the Hamas raping and killing is just a legitimate resistance of occupation and resistance of settler colonialism and so on and so forth. That’s what every undergraduate gets in American universities at the Ivy League level. And so the hatred of Israel is really a hatred of the American system itself. It’s the same thing, and we’re kidding ourselves. There’s something pathological about a society that teaches its elite to hate itself. That’s what we’re witnessing here. It’s just that Israel right now is the licit target of this self-loathing that we are inculcating in our own elite.

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