{"id":106878,"date":"2019-08-21T15:47:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/21\/jew-baiting-is-part-of-the-trump-playbook-its-a-feature-not-a-bug-lloyd-green\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:47:31","slug":"jew-baiting-is-part-of-the-trump-playbook-its-a-feature-not-a-bug-lloyd-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106878","title":{"rendered":"Jew-baiting is part of the Trump playbook. It&#039;s a feature, not a bug | Lloyd Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump used an anti-semitic trope about disloyal Jews in a tweet about Democrats. Old habits die hardOn Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that American Jews who voted Democratic were either stupid, disloyal or both. As Trump framed things: \u201cI think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.\u201d Disloyal to Trump, the US or Israel, the president did not specify. But he didn\u2019t have to, the message was clear enough: American Jews are now a cross between political props and pi\u00f1atas.Almost on cue, Matt Brooks, the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, eagerly whitewashed the president\u2019s comments. According to Brooks, Trump\u2019s goal was really about communal therapy, and what Trump actually meant was: \u201cYou\u2019re being disloyal to yourself to say, \u2018Hey, I support somebody who is known to espouse anti-Semitic comments.\u2019\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/aug\/21\/jew-baiting--trump-playbook-its-a-feature-not-a-bug\" target=\"_blank\">Jew-baiting is part of the Trump playbook. It&#039;s a feature, not a bug | Lloyd Green<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump used an anti-semitic trope about disloyal Jews in a tweet about Democrats. Old habits die hardOn Tuesday, Donald Trump announced that American Jews who voted Democratic were either stupid, disloyal or both. As Trump framed things: \u201cI think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}