Trump, Race, and Jewish Republicans

While some Jews—like my boss at the Weekly Standard William Kristol, and Tablet colleague James Kirchick—are at the heart of the anti-Trump movement within the Republican Party, some Jewish Republicans continue to support him. There is mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, for one. There is also Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, and a host of corporate retainers. Yet there are also Jewish intellectuals who support a man from whom the entire American elite recoils in horror. So, who are these people?

In my first dispatch from Hollywood, I spoke with novelist and screenwriter Michael Tolkin and explained how the extinction-level events he imagines in his films and books are “in a sense, optimistic accounts of a collective fate that we can control through right action.” In this dispatch, I visited with two of the West Coast’s most prominent conservative Jewish intellectuals, David Horowitz and Roger Simon, screenwriter, novelist and publisher of PJ Media. Both of them are hopeful about Trump, the man many Americans—of both political parties—think likely to bring about the apocalypse.

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