Outside of a few chassidish clusters, Yidden are no longer a bunch of sheeplach who mindlessly vote for whomever some Rav tells them to. Hopefully, most will examine the views of both candidates on issues of importance to them and their families and balance that with the behavior and performance of those candidates and make a decision. There clearly is a wide gap here in the CR and throughout the tzibur as to how we should separate and discount Trump’s personal behavior from his few positive actions with respect to EY. I’ve noted multiple times how frustrating it is for BOTH parties to continually nominate mediocre candidates but that is the binary choice we are confronted with. In our democratic system, our gadolim and askanim are entitled to express their own opinions on political candidates and policy issues but in contrast to matters of halacha, we as individuals can make our own informed political judgements after consulting with our on Rav.
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