George Wallace ran some really racist political campaigns but as far I know his daughter never married a black man or decided to celebrate Kwanzaa or claimed to have become a black woman. This was fortunate for Wallace because it prevented any awkward moments around the house.
Trump, on the other hand, has a daughter who married a Jewish man and she then converted to Judaism herself, which is a bit of a downer when you want to make your final pitch in the campaign about the global Jewish conspiracy to “rob our working class, strip our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.”
Josh Marshall says that this indicates that Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is “conscienceless,” but that seems like singling out the Jew for criticism here. The decision to use naked anti-Semitism as his closing argument was made in an environment where conscience was lacking from everyone in the room.
For most of this campaign, Jews seemed to be the only minority that was off limits for Trump and his team. I assumed that Ivanka and Jared were the main reasons why Jews were being let off the hook, but it was only a matter of time before they got sold out, too.
Do they care? Did they maybe even suggest this?
All I know for sure is that it indicates a level of cynicism that I’ve never seen before.
