For what it's worth, I also agree with other commenters here that Trump's words probably mean "they should stick with Me or else Israel, or America, will suffer". And I'm NO supporter of his!
But I also agree with Bari that there's an echo of an old calumny in his remarks, regarding "the ungrateful Jew". He doesn't seem to know how to k…
For what it's worth, I also agree with other commenters here that Trump's words probably mean "they should stick with Me or else Israel, or America, will suffer". And I'm NO supporter of his!
But I also agree with Bari that there's an echo of an old calumny in his remarks, regarding "the ungrateful Jew". He doesn't seem to know how to keep that spite out of his thoughts when it comes to people who don't support him. There's just something nasty ever below the surface in his comments--they're un-American, foreign, not us--and it's so often that to not notice it as a listener after all this time, in my view, is to be willfully obtuse. I've just stopped giving a shit that it comes from narcissism in Trump rather than from a supposedly-more-evil place in the human soul. How are the rest of you not sick of that little turd-nugget being slipped in when he talks about normie Americans who vote Democrat, or at least, vote against him? What Hillary Clinton did with the "basket of deplorables" comment Trump has done a thousand times over with respect to the other HALF of American voters. He's not talking about just the bossy, neurotic pink-haired sociology graduate students, or professional Democrats.
And few of his supporters seem to care when he gets nasty. News commentators must of course be free to do this, although notice how they profit from making us all angry at each other, Left and Right alike. Presidents and ex-presidents, and candidates, should find a better way, because they have the power to really tear us apart. We have to be able to talk without this invidious bullshit, and Himself is never going to be able to lead us that way.
For what it's worth, I also agree with other commenters here that Trump's words probably mean "they should stick with Me or else Israel, or America, will suffer". And I'm NO supporter of his!
But I also agree with Bari that there's an echo of an old calumny in his remarks, regarding "the ungrateful Jew". He doesn't seem to know how to keep that spite out of his thoughts when it comes to people who don't support him. There's just something nasty ever below the surface in his comments--they're un-American, foreign, not us--and it's so often that to not notice it as a listener after all this time, in my view, is to be willfully obtuse. I've just stopped giving a shit that it comes from narcissism in Trump rather than from a supposedly-more-evil place in the human soul. How are the rest of you not sick of that little turd-nugget being slipped in when he talks about normie Americans who vote Democrat, or at least, vote against him? What Hillary Clinton did with the "basket of deplorables" comment Trump has done a thousand times over with respect to the other HALF of American voters. He's not talking about just the bossy, neurotic pink-haired sociology graduate students, or professional Democrats.
And few of his supporters seem to care when he gets nasty. News commentators must of course be free to do this, although notice how they profit from making us all angry at each other, Left and Right alike. Presidents and ex-presidents, and candidates, should find a better way, because they have the power to really tear us apart. We have to be able to talk without this invidious bullshit, and Himself is never going to be able to lead us that way.