I think Trump is, on balance, a drag on Republican candidates -- not necessarily because of anything he has done, or because of the "quality" of the candidates he supports (have you seen the Democrats?), but for another reason.
The fact is that Democrats have created their own universe of meaning, sustained partly by the mainstream media, but also within the minds of millions of voters who do not share conservatives' aspirations, at least not consciously.
Their imaginary reasons for hating Trump have real-world results. I think that the riots of 2020 were the result of the fact that impeachment failed to take out Trump and that Democratic voters had little faith in Joe Biden to win.
They took matters into their own hands and simply launched an orgy of violence -- starting in Minneapolis because of George Floyd, but then moving to the White House itself before it fanned out across most of America's major cities.
Democrats were basically saying that they would make America ungovernable if Trump won again. In the weeks before the November 2020 election, they made that threat more explicit; "Shut Down DC" planned nationwide unrest.
Trump has been unfairly persecuted, though he has also made bad mistakes -- and none of that matters. The fact is that half the country simply will not be governed by Donald Trump. There is almost no way around that basic problem.
This week's show will be slightly different from the norm: we'll focus on clips and topics, rather than guests -- and that, hopefully, will mean more input from the callers (unless you are all watching football on opening weekend).
Topics:
- The state of the economy
- The fight against crime
- The midterm election fight
- The struggle for peace between Russia and Ukraine
- The airstrike on the Venezuelan drug cartel
- The attempt to sink Kennedy
- The war in Gaza
- The case against Harvard
- The Trump presidency
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This week's Torah portion includes several laws about conduct in civic and personal life, the common theme of which is boundaries -- setting bounds to what one may do at home, at work, and even in the battlefield.
One noteworthy passage concerns Amalek, the evil nation that attacked the Children of Israel as they made their Exodus from slavery to freedom. Deuteronomy 25:17-19 commands Jews to obliterate Amalek's memory.
The South African government accused Israel of genocide on the basis of a story about Amalek in the Book of Samuel, in which King Saul was commanded to wipe out the entire evil Amalekite nation.
Because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted this week's portion -- "Remember what Amalek did to you" (25:17), the South African government claimed he was commanding soldiers to commit genocide.
It was an absurd and malevolent misreading of the Bible and of Jewish tradition. The commandment, as observed by Jews today, is to remember the evil of Amalek and fight ...
