By Miss Kubelik
There have been a ton of anti-Semitic incidents lately, both here in the US and around the world, and they're highly disturbing. It's unclear what any of us can do about an airport riot in Dagestan (here it is on a map if you need to find it), but how upsetting is it to know that Jewish students at both Tulane and Cornell have been threatened and harassed? And last week, anti-Semitic images were projected onto the side of the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library at George Washington University. Now, that's a place we know well.
You know whose fault this is, right? Benedict Donald's.
Donald Trump did not invent anti-Semitism, of course. But ever since he stepped onto the national political stage eight years ago, by his words and actions he's given racists and bigots blanket permission to be loud, proud and their own worst selves.
He began lowering the political discourse the moment he stepped off that golden escalator, with his comments about Mexicans and rapists. And that was just the start. Remember how he encouraged crowds at his rallies to beat up protesters? And how Trump supporters started threatening delegates before the GOP convention? And remember how Republicans demanded that he stop it, or the party would turn against him en masse? (Whoops! That last part never happened. On the contrary, their silence enabled it.)
And then there was Charlottesville in 2017. After the Tiki Torch lamebrains marched and chanted, "Jews will not replace us," Trump said there were good people on both sides. No, Donald: Nazis and anti-Semites are not good people, but POTUS implied they were. And now we're reaping the wild wind of what might be Donald Trump's most egregious exercise of Presidential power.
No wonder he's known in some excellent quarters as the Vulgaryan. Trumpism is a cancer on our country, and it needs to sent back to the dark, sinister fringes of American life. We cats HISS.
(IMAGE: Trump at his "both sides" press avail. Look who's standing with him: Gary Cohn and Steve Mnuchin, both Jewish, and Mitch McConnell's Asian wife. This picture, and the memory, make us sick.)
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