Dennis Prager: For everyone who keeps asking me why do so many Jews always vote Democrat….

Some of the most powerful forces in the Democrat Party (the reason for the $3.5 trillion spending bill) are indistinguishable in their hatred for Israel from Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian regime. Does this disturb American Jewish Democrats? 

 

Not nearly as much as Donald Trump disturbed them. Most American Jews loathed Trump despite the facts that he was the most pro-Israel president since Harry Truman; that his daughter and grandchildren are religious Jews; and that he engineered the Abraham Accords, a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain and Israel, which was followed by normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel and between Morocco and Israel.

 

Most American Jews believe the Democrat Party is a good and moral party and that the Republican Party is immoral and perhaps even evil.

 

This view is entirely emotional, which is why it is difficult to imagine it changing. 

 

Most American Jews identify Republicans with the right and they assume “the right” means “fascist” or even “Nazi.”

 

Most American Jews identify Republicans with the rich and powerful and the Democrat Party with the poor and downtrodden, even though the rich and powerful are overwhelmingly Democrats.

 

Most American Jews identify the Democrat Party with secularism and the Republican Party with religion (religious Christians and Orthodox Jews). And they are as committed to secularism as Christians are to Christ.

 

Most American Jews have signed on to just about every secular substitute for Judeo-Christian religions: feminism, environmentalism, “anti-racism,” humanism, socialism. Jews, I have often noted, may well be the most religious people in the world — but for the great majority of them, Judaism is not their religion. And the Democrat Party is the party of all these secular religions.