Bannon “doesn’t hate Jews; he hates ‘foreigners’, liberals, secularists and elites”
Populist bias is a lot like the phrase “Make America Great Again.” Only a...
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“…by denying liberal principles, Zionism immediately becomes continuous with…the anti-Semitic politics of the sort promoted by the alt-right”
…by denying liberal principles, Zionism immediately becomes continuous with — rather than contradictory to...
“This assessment…bespeaks an overly self-absorbed Jewish community and continues the left’s self-defeating tone-deafness when it comes to Trump and his associates”
Among American Jewish progressives, the consensus is that Bannon, Donald Trump’s “strategic adviser,” is...
“By engaging in a kind of weird witch-hunt against Bannon, sifting through his garbage to find scraps of anti-Semitism, Jewish pundits are misunderstanding and misrepresenting Trumpism itself”
By engaging in a kind of weird witch-hunt against Bannon, sifting through his garbage...
“If white women of all education levels were more susceptible to Mr. Trump’s nostalgic, macho transactionalism, perhaps it was because they are adjacent to the men who have traditionally enjoyed the most resources and power in society, and who either believe they have lost it or fear losing it”
People without a college degree, from whom the president-elect saw strong support, were in...
“Trump’s victory among the “white working class” was both economic resentment and racist-nativist conservatism…”
Trump’s victory among the “white working class” was both economic resentment and racist-nativist conservatism,...
“The problem with Trump is…that his rhetoric…has created an atmosphere that suggests that behavioral anti-Semitism…may have a new legitimacy”
The problem with Trump is not blatant anti-Semitism, or anti-Islamism; I’m not afraid that...
“…for all his thunderous talk before Election Day about ‘draining the swamp’ of Washington, the water level looks fine, the mosquitoes seem unworried and the gators remain plentiful and well-fed”
Trump styled himself as a populist during his flamboyantly provocative campaign, claiming to hear,...
“A substantial portion of the American public has made clear that it feels betrayed by the establishment…”
A substantial portion of the American public has made clear that it feels betrayed...
“National politics in healthy periods is not about ‘difference’, it is about commonality”
National politics in healthy periods is not about “difference,” it is about commonality. And...