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Opinion Is Donald Trump Really a Hitler-Style Fascist?
Alfred Münzer, a Holocaust survivor, is nervous: Donald Trump’s increasingly vile campaign for president is becoming increasingly viable. “I am very worried about what he says. I am much more worried by how it’s received,” Münzer told me in a phone interview from his Washington, D.C., home, as voters in nearby Virginia went to the…
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News Donald Trump’s Favorite Son-In-Law Is Jewish — Does That Matter?
On stage at Donald Trump’s victory party on primary night in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was hard to spot. A polished Harvard graduate wearing muted grays, Kushner seemed ready to fade into the background alongside Trump’s sons Don Jr. and Eric in their wide, bright ties — but Trump wouldn’t let him….
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Opinion After Scalia’s Death, Don’t Let GOP Senators Break Their Sacred Oath
Dozens of Republican senators, many professing religious piety, have stated that they will not discharge their duty set forth in the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which reads, in part, “The president shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint… Judges of the Supreme Court.” Have they…
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Opinion How Republican Jews Utterly Failed To Prevent Rise of ‘Toxic’ Donald Trump
There is no sugarcoating it — these are the darkest days for Republican Jews like myself. Donald Trump, the most likely Republican candidate for president, has built within our party the nearest thing America has ever seen to a European nativist working class political movement. Such movements, to put it mildly, have never been good…
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Opinion Why We Need To Dial Down Our Anti-Trump Rhetoric
To all those sensible people who are just as outraged as I am about the rise of Donald Trump: please curb your uproar. We all know Trump has gone farther than we would have liked, but our anger only legitimizes his success and gives fuel to his momentum. Criticism is a compliment in itself, garnering…
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Opinion Donald Trump Is Playing ‘Mr. Neutral’ on Everything From Israel to the Klan — and It’s Working
There are a few topics in American politics that have unmatched power to excite and divide. The KKK is one. The Israel-Palestinian conflict is another. You might think that given the polarizing nature of both issues, it would be impossible to run for president without clearly delineating your stance on them. And yet Donald Trump,…
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Opinion Why Jewish Republicans Should Look Past Marco Rubio — to Michael Bloomberg
What’s a moderate Republican — that is, most Jewish Republicans — to do? With Donald Trump and Ted Cruz ascendant, moderate hopes have flitted from Jeb Bush to Marco Rubio and now to John Kasich. In fact, however, there’s only one hope for moderate Republicans: Bernie Sanders. Let me explain. First, Rubio is no moderate….
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News GOP Candidates Go Into Overdrive Touting Christian Faith — Even Donald Trump
It was at the tail end of his encounter with Iowa’s Republican electorate — one day before the state’s February 1 primary caucus — that Donald Trump almost plopped a few dollars of his vast fortune into the communion plate at a church in Council Bluffs, Iowa. That’s the plate meant to catch any stray…
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