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Solly Mack

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11. Trump is using the threat of antisemitism to attack the Universities. To attack higher education. To gain control over
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 11:57 AM
Apr 2025

the institutions.

Their embrace of antisemites is no accident. It's not a one-off. It's not out-of-character. It's not anything new. It's very much in keeping with all their other bigotries and beliefs. Trump attacks Jewish people all the time. From the anti-Jewish tropes against George Soros to claiming Shumer is no longer Jewish to saying Jewish people who vote the Democratic Party are not "real" Jews and they hate Israel.

Trump and the rest are not pro-Jewish. They are your typical bigots.

Right-wing evangelicals are not pro-Jewish. They are pro end-of-times - and that includes being pro-Israel in that context. Jewish people have a role to fill in those end-of-times beliefs, but once they fulfill that role, they are no longer needed. They are incidental - unless they fall on their knees and see the error of their ways and become Christians.

Trump courts the support of those same evangelicals.

It's all very transactional on Trump's part.

Miller is a white supremacist - which would be funny considering the history of white supremacist groups and their hate of Jewish people - unless you consider his need for acceptance as being like everyone else (he viewed as the thing to be). That he wants to be seen a certain way and accepted a certain way, and it isn't as a Jewish man - he wants to be seen as a white man like the white boys and men he went to school with who are not Jewish. For Miller, his Jewishness is incidental to his identity - but his white skin is everything to it.







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