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Neoconservatives die hard, and Paul Wolfowitz, one of the leaders of this school of thought, is no exception. The former deputy defense secretary during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has reemerged in the spotlights, calling on the new administration to assert a bold American stance in the Middle East and expressing reserved optimism about President…
John Podhoretz, the neoconservative editor of Commentary Magazine, said White House adviser Kellyanne Conway might be a red, but not the Republican kind. I remember when Kellyanne Conway was a conservative, not a Stalinist. https://t.co/MLesVuwIjc — John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) January 24, 2017 Podhoretz, part of the Never Trump movement, was referring to a conversation with…
In a 16-minute address, a condensed and somewhat refined version of his campaign speeches delivered over the 18-month campaign, President Donald Trump sought to turn the page on what he described as an age of self-centered political elites doling out the goods of the nation to members of ruling class. But on the way he…
It is a time of uncertainty for many Jewish Republicans, checking their mobile phones with a sense of hope and concern. “Everyone is getting calls,” said one activist. “I’m sure I’ll be getting one too.” He was referring, of course, to a call, or more likely an email message, from Trump Tower, where the President-elect…
It was a rocky night for Donald Trump at the third and final presidential debate. According to neoconservative John Podhoretz, it went so bad that even Trump seemed to realize he would never make it to the White House. As the event neared its close, the Republican nominee sarcastically wished Clinton “lotsa luck” in dealing…
Neoconservative writer Bill Kristol slammed Donald Trump again, insisting that the mercurial Republican candidate’s campaign shakeup would do nothing to reverse his slide in the polls. “I don’t think it matters because the problem is Donald Trump,” Kristol said in an interview on the Morning Joe program, Politico reported. Trump announced early Wednesday morning that…
Donald Trump’s ascent in the Republican presidential race has presented one group of Republicans with something more than just concern about the fate of their party. For neoconservatives, a Trump nomination could mean an extension of their sentence in a political Siberia. Some members of this hawkish cohort saw the 2016 election as an opportunity…
(JTA) — Ted Cruz wants to make sure you understand: “Republican” and “neoconservative” are no longer synonymous. The Texas senator, inching up to second place behind front-runner Donald Trump in the polls just weeks before the Iowa caucuses, has launched a broadside against the “crazy” movement that not so long ago was inextricable from establishment…
THE TEMPLE EMANU-EL STREICKER CENTER and Virtual
Aug 10, 2022
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Will the last Jew left in New York’s congressional delegation be reelected? Will New York’s senior congresswoman receive another term? Or will one of the newcomers upend Manhattan politics?
