He is desperate, losing his bearing, his economy coming off the rail, his greatest fear of not being reelected, he sees as a reality and he lashes out. Now, it's Jews who vote Democratic.
President Trump said on Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for a Democrat is guilty of ignorance or great disloyalty, intensifying his efforts to drive in a partisan wedge over religion and support for Israel even as he appeared to draw on an anti-Semitic trope.
Logan Bayroff, the communications director for J Street, a progressive Jewish organization, said:
It is dangerous and shameful for President Trump to attack the large majority of the American Jewish community as unintelligent and disloyal. But it is no surprise that the presidents racist, disingenuous attacks on progressive women of color in Congress have now transitioned into smears against Jews.
The accusation that Jews have dual loyalty is nothing new, but it has become a toxic element of white nationalist philosophy.
The remark was the latest from a president who has a history of using language that stokes racial and religious divisions. That language has been echoed in recent statements and writings of deranged people bent on violence.