For almost a century, there has been one constant in American politics: Jews vote for Democrats. There are multiple reasons for this fact but, regardless of the reason, the one thing Democrats could rely on was the Jewish vote. However, the Biden administration’s increasingly open hostility to Israel may be changing that pattern. One poll out of New York shows something remarkable: More than 50% of New York’s Jews plan to vote for Donald Trump!.........
In America, though, by the 1930s, Jews had made the same journey that blacks did, finding what they thought was their permanent political home with the Democrats. The Republican party was seen as the party of antisemitism and, especially after WWII, Democrats played on that visceral fear. Few Jews, even the ones who escaped from or survived the Holocaust, made the connection between Hitler’s socialism and the rising socialism of the Democrat party. The inability to see this link—and this was true despite Karl Marx’s openly expressed antisemitism or Stalin’s Jewish purges—kept Jews tied to Democrats.
At any rate I asked her why Jews who lead conservative lives, work hard, believe in education, are devoted to family values, and raise their children with those same values, vote for a party that supports all things antithetical to that, and is openly antisemitic?
She said she's a conservative in her head, but a liberal in her heart.
Since I'm a history buff I laced all my conversations with historical support, and as time went by she said she was going to vote for Trump, much to the chagrin of her friends. All of whom wanted to know why she listened to that exterminator? And, that was perfectly understandable.
The point being, is you can't reason people out of positions they've not been reasoned into.....normally. If we three hadn't developed a friendship, she would have never been exposed to my views, or heard the history behind those views, the logic of my arguments, or any reason to go outside the social paradigm of her group. But eventually time, reality, and truth come together, and generations change. When that happens, foundational social paradigms are subject to change, and then reality is easier to embrace.
I will also say this. The first time Obama ran I saw signs for him all over Cleveland's Eastern suburbs, where there's a large Jewish population. When he ran the second time, the number of signs were noticeably less. I believe that intellectual change started earlier than most believe, including those who were starting to make the change. It's the head versus heart issue. They just needed a some event to trigger the change of heart.