The year is 2028. Trump is now 6’4″, according to his doctor. He has survived more assassination attempts than the other presidents combined. He’s managed to avoid impeachment by way of a backroom deal with the Democrats that granted citizenship to a millionDreamers. Trump says he’s days away from a deal with Putin to end the Ukraine war, just in time to give JD Vance a boost in the polls, but by now only a sprinkling of Evangelicals and diehards remain from his original grassroots base.
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What a difference a few years can make. As Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and Candace Owens wash their hands of this administration, the company that the president keeps leaves little mystery as to where things go from here. These days the president prefers to bathe in the sweet and soggy praise of those who were against him when he first ran for office: Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro and Lindsey Graham. As strange as it is to say, Trump has become a Never-Trumper.
Back in 2015, I wrote the semi-satirical pieceWhy Donald Trump Should have held a Miss Universe pageant in Iran. Before the Islamic Revolution of 1978 Iran actually used to host beauty pageants, but the broader point was that commerce and cultural exchange often succeed in relaxing political barriers. The article was initially rejected for being too negative about Trump’s personal baggage at a time when he was the next big hope, but indeed many of the early warning signs were there that in the slipstream of this populist Pegasus was a neocon Trojan horse. Trump was already a huge war hawk on Iran and an advocate of massive military spending. His extensive business and familial ties in New York were completely intertwined with Jews, including in-laws and grandchildren. So while some red meat was thrown into the mix in the form of anti-immigrant nativism, the overall manifestation of the two Trump administrations hardly diverges from its headwaters. These days, Trump rarely utters the sloganAmerica First– perhaps a Freudian pink slip of termination – but what you will hear coming out of the woodwork from a growing number of defectors is theMake Israel Great Againlampoon. Let’s assess the claim.
Over the Trump era, we’ve seen the embassy moved to Jerusalem, recognition of Golan’s annexation and the conclusion of Gaza’s demolition. The 1.9 million refugees slowly being redistributed to neighboring countries could also end up in a neighborhood near you. The ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, is an open supporter of the Greater Israel Project (and he is the Christian in Trump’s cabinet). Appetites for a chunk of the fallen Syrian state persist as rumors for now, while Israel hasinvadedLebanon up to the Litani River and may well convert this “defensive buffer” into eventual annexation. The fighting is so fierce that one IDF soldier was forced to use asledgehammerto defend himself against a statue of Jesus.
On the socioeconomic front, inflation in Israel is a mere 1.9%, compared to 3.5% in the United States and up to 6% in some EU countries. New Jewish immigrants continue to arrive in Israel and the country even ranked eighth in the recentWorld Happiness Report– remarkable in the midst of intermittent war. Israelis are a special breed, not only do they repeatedly choose Benjamin Netanyahu to lead them but also Knesset ogres like Itamar Ben-Gvir, whose recent role in the bringing about Palestinian death penalty law was celebrated by his wife baking abirthday cakewith the image of a noose and the words “Sometimes dreams come true.”
Out in the Diaspora, the morale of Jewish activists might not be quite so plucky but it nevertheless endures with aggressive litigation of everything deemed antisemitic. Australia recently completed an inquisition following the Bondi attack by two Muslims, with the expected fallout that free speech and gun rights will be further stymied. It’s unlikely there’ll be many more influential youth leaders who dare take a stand on Israel the way Charlie Kirk did before he was wiped off the map. There’s a saying among political pundits that nothing is true until Benjamin Netanyahu denies it, and sure enough the Israeli PM embarked on a strangely prolific campaign to deny Israeli involvement in the Kirk assassination.
A similar run of good luck with plausible deniability has carried the Jeffrey Epstein affair to an anticlimactic stalemate, even if it’s widely assumed he must have been running a blackmail operation on behalf of the Israelis. No indictments, no justice for victims and not even a minor scandal about the use of Jewish supremacist language in the emails. Instead of aGoyim Lives Matterawakening, Americans were treated tothishysterical exchange in the congressional hearing in which antisemitism became the focal point. Who knows what will be written about the Protocols of the Elders of Epstein a century from now? I say that because the passage of time invariably gives Jewish narratives the benefit of the doubt.
Last week in Brussels, stained glass windows more than a century old wereremovedfrom the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula because they were said to be antisemitic depictions of a blood-libel from 1370. Not knowing precisely what happened seven centuries ago might be one reason to remove the murals, but what the clergy have agreed to do is to kowtow with an apology plaque in place of the windows and grovel to the Jewish community for forgiveness. This is the direction that atonement and reconciliation always travels in between these groups. The Middle Ages may have been a time of rampant superstition and religious mania, however I see no reason why such zealotry would have been confined to Christians while Jews be considered paragons of equanimity not at all prone to neurotic curiosities and conspiracy.
Source: SGT Report
