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It isn’t all clear which is worse. In many ways Trump’s “support” of Israel, combined with an “America First” foreign policy (i.e. no foreign wars) may be even more likely to put Israel at risk, since it will give a “green light” to America’s enemies (including Iran) to pursue aggressive policies without fear of American intervention. Domestic anti-Semitism, on the other hand, is an issue in which Trump is clearly preferable from our perspective, as the WOKE wing of the Democrats appear to be taking over the party, and they include Harris and Walz, and they are openly anti-Israel and anti-Jewish (meaning opposed to frum Jews).
For Israel, the message should be that no matter who wins, their survival is in their hands and they need to be prepared to defend themselves with their own resources and give up dependence on American aid or the financial support of American Jews (e.g. raise taxes, build up defense industries so they don’t need imports, promote policies of national unity go back to having a third world standard of living so they can support a first world military without imports).
Whether doing Kiruv, or running a yeshiva aimed at Baalei Tseuvah, one has to be prepared for the possibility that someone raised in a non-frum background is not Jewish, or at least, there is no way of determining if they are Jewish. One should note that in the case of Baalei Tseuvah who are already doing mitsvos, and then discovers they may, or perhaps definitely, are not Jews, conversion is greatly simplified by the fact they are already adopting a Jewish lifestyle. At this point, anyone who is of German descent (i.e. from the 1848 waive of immigration) or Sefardi (from those fleeing the Spanish and Portuguese in the 16th and 17th centuries), whose family has not remained at least nominally Orthodox, probably is a safek goy, and this will soon be the case, if it isn’t already, of the waive of East European Ashkenazim who came in the late 19th and early 20th century.
On the bright side, during the first generation or two of going “off the derekh” people often had arguably valid marriages but rarely bother with a “get” when they got divorced – but if it turns out they are goyim that solves the problem (since it is lot easier to convert that to deal with mamzerus).
There is a view that it is prohibited from trying to convince goyim to convert, but it isn’t clear how that appears to non-Jews of Jewish descent. It needs to be remembered that until recently, it was a capital offense for a goy to become a ger, so any Jews openly encouraging goyim to convert would be executed.
If it turns out that the Arab-Israeli (or rather Iranian-Israeli) conflict ignites World War III, similar to how a local conflict in the Balkans ignited World War I, Neturei Karta will be seen as the only group who correctly understood how Jews turning into Zionists could destroy the world.
They are both “good” or “bad” for the Jews, but in different ways.
Harris’s close alliance and past association with the Progressive (WOKE) wing of her party is very threatening since they are active anti-Semites.
Trump’s willingness to accept support from far night the anti-Semitic activists is probably less threatening, since the right-wing anti-Semites have minimal support whereas the left-wing anti-Semites are a large movement and probably control the Democratic Party.
MAGA’s isolationism is threatening to Israel (and the world) but is not based on anti-Semitism, whereas the Progressive position is that Israel (and Jews who support Israel, and all non-assimilated Jews are presumed to be zionists) is evil and should be destroyed (and they act on this belief by attacking Jews in America and around the world).
Yussel: Normal people surrender. Lawyers specializing in international and military law capitulate. Don’t expect to find “surrender” on the SAT, but be ready for “capitulation”.
When Biden (a few years younger than me) was growing up, many people still remembered World War I (and World War II was something of a continuation and a rematch). The situation today globally is very similar to that of the early summer of 1914, and Biden wants to keep a lid on the situation including the war in the Middle East, Ukraine and the potential conflicts in East Asia. He needs Israel to win enough so they don’t decide they have had all they can take and start throwing around weapons of mass destruction, and while Israel could wipe out the Palestinians and cripple the Muslim world, the backlash would probably set off the “powderkeg” that is set to explode globally (and unlike 1914, many countries have weapons of mass destruction or can get them quickly).
The author of the posting forgets that the whole idea of Zionism was to free Jews from the yoke of Torah and to wipe out learning Torah. To them, closing down the yeshivos and drafting the students is a “two fer” (they get more canon fodder and sharply undermine Torah scholarship and they hope to strike a fatal blow against Yiddishkeit). If all the Zionists wanted was to Jews being able to live in peace and devote themselves to Torah and Mitsvos, they had that option a century ago, and turned it down. Frumkeit is not really compatible with conquering the neighboring goyim and bending them to our will, which is the concept of “sovereignty” that it the core of the zionist dream. The Zionists have painted themselves into a corner through their own bigotry and pig-headedness (choice of animal is not a slip of speech).
My suggestion would be to study “Journalism” as it was taught in journalism schools in the pre-WOKE era, involving reporting, fact checking, political neutrality, objectivity, etc. We really don’t need an online version of the Jewish Press, or a Jewish version of the New York Times as it is in the 21st century, but a new source similar to what mainstream newspapers were 50+ years ago would be nice.
1. If they are “real” Chareidim (e.g. Satmar, Neturei Karta) who hold that Torah prohibits establishing a secular nominally-Jewish state, then they are conscientious objectors. Such persons routinely minimize accepting benefits from the medinah (and refuse funding from zionist entities including the Israeli government). There are no good reasons for the medinah to conscript such persons, and probably should treat them as Arabs (i.e. Palestinian Jews) with no more rights, or disabilities that Palestinian Muslims who refuse to serve in the IDF. Such persons should be exempt regardless of whether they are learning full time or not. It should be noted that most western democracies have traditionally exempted conscientious objectors to military service, and arresting conscientious objectors would be a public relations nightmare for the medinah.
2. For individuals who accept the legality under Jewish law of the current Medinah, the only real issue the IDF’s accommodation of religious practices (or lack thereof). This could be addressed and to a certain extent is (e.g. in special units and Hesder yeshivos). For Zionists who believe that their learning is more important than playing soldier, accommodation can be done through Hesder programs or even arranging part time service or work in alternative services such as defense factories (and noting that the Israeli government considers a yeshiva student learning 20 hours a week to be full time, so many exempt students can do some gainful employment).
3. The government could tie support for yeshiva students to military service, if they similarly tied support for university students to military service, and also tied state benefits to military service. However this would alienate many non-hareidim (secular left wingers as well as Arabs) who don’t serve in the army (and according to government statistics, they outnumber hareidim who refuse military service.
“Capitulation” is a fancy, lawyer-like, word that means “surrender”. For examples, the Germans capitulated to the Allies on May 8. The United States capitulated to the Taliban in Afghanistan. If the Israelis are forced to capitulate to Hezbollah, they probably will have to give up the Galil,
“America First” means foreign countries LAST. Remember that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are allied. There already are Russian troops stationed in Syria (referenced in reports of foreign troops supporting Hebzolah in Syria ready to enter Lebanon and fight the Israelis). If Trump wins, he will give much sympathy for Israel, but nothing that will meaningfully stop the Russia/Iran/China axis from attacking. And remember that Israel is hopelessly outnumbered, and receives a large amount of its arms from the Americans. Of course one could hope for a miracle, perhaps in zechus of Israel cracking down on Torah education, banning abortions and LGBTQ, etc. (I am being sarcastic). The Israeli might be able to survive if they give up their first world standard of living (which many if not most Israeli Hareidim don’t enjoy), and are prepared to fight without American aid – but that might be too little, too late.
While Kamala (and her movement, the WOKE Progressive wing of the Democrats) only hate Israel, they are not likely to meaningfully oppose the “axis” since they prefer to focus on domestic matters and WOKE policies, rather than rebuild national defenses which have been seriously weakening for the last 16 years, so if those who depend on the United States in Europe or Asia which to survive, they need to be prepared to make the sacrifices necessary to defeat their enemies.
No one has ever bred a chicken with a different bird. The genetic engineering of chickens, which had already taken place by the periods referred to in the Talmuds, was done through natural means (preferring those that lay eggs even when infertile, and eating the rest).
Please list the Hechksherim giving heckshers to unprocessed chicken eggs, and the companies producing them. I can’t seem to find them in any kashrus guides, leading me to think discussion is a HOAX (probably be a non-frum Jews trying to annoy us).
Who is selling raw chicken eggs with a hecksher? What company is paying for such a hecksher?
If some “dairy” company has a contract with a hecksher that all their products get the hecksher, the eggs frequently sold by that dairy company would technically get a hecksher, but the marginal cost of that hecksher would be de minimis (the fee for the hecksher would be on products that require supervision). Processed food such as powdered eggs need a hecksher but the discussion is over raw chicken eggs sold with unbroken shells.
Non-chicken eggs that occasionally get sold commercially, which is rare, are from kosher birds such as turkey and duck. Almost all eggs sold anywhere are from chickens, largely since chickens have been genetically modified to produce eggs roughly once a day and even when they are not fertilized.
Who is giving a hecksher to raw chicken eggs?
Unlike milk (in some places, non-kosher milk is sold commercially), there are no non-kosher animals whose eggs are commercially available, or are customarily eaten by humans.
By retaliating against Hezbollah the Israelis warned them that they can expect that conquering Eretz Yisrael will NOT be a push over, and they did so in a way that minimized non-combatant casualties (how many people give their work pager as a toy for their kids to play with?). Report indicate that the injuries were from the pager exploding in the hand and near the face of the user, or in their pockets. If a thief and murderer can break into your house, do his will, and leave without fear of consequences, he’ll continue to do so. Seriously wounding a large part of the enemy’s armed forces is in fact a much more effect measure than levelling the houses of the civilian population.
Calling Hezbollah a “terrorist” organization is a mistake. It is a formal armed force that is under Iran’s de facto command. They are no more terrorists the Israeli artillery or air force units – the only difference is Hezbollah primarily targets civilians, which is illegal under international law and that fact should help us understand that the pro-Hezbollah (and pro-Hamas) movements worldwide are criminals similar to the National Socialists and allied parties in Europe in the early 1940s (and yes, I’m suggesting that the pro-Palestinian demonstrators and politicians, including most of the “Progressive” wing of the Democrats, are NAZIs, pure and simple). And we need to remember that successful deNazification involved inflicting mass destruction and executing the leaders.
If Trump or Harris announced that they would pardon anyone whose prosecution was politically motivated (excluding only who had inflicted physical harm on another person), including anyone arrested at a political demonstration or anyone whose conviction had been demanded by politicians or the media -they would be a national hero and win. Americans do not approve of the use of the legal system to harass political opponents and if either candidate adopts an anti-Lawfare policy it will seriously improve their chances of election.
There is no reason to believe that Vance would do better, The Republicans would have been better off 8 months ago Trump retired and endorsed Haley, who then chose Vance for Vice-President. Unlike the Democrats (whose split between WOKE and DINO is over ideology, e.g. WOKE supports Hamas and anti-Semitism in America, the DINOs don’t), the Republican split of MAGA vs RINO is based on style and campaign tactics more than ideology.
The “never Trumpers” are unlikely to rejoin the Republican party since they object to MAGA ideology and generally share the Democrat’s view that the Trump supporters are a “basket of deplorables”. TDS (Trump derangement syndrome) does make the Democrats act like idiots (e.g. calling for Trump’s imprisonment or execution, without or without a fair trial), and if Trump dropped out they might recover.
If you want to be safe from goyim, in the long run, you are talking about another planet (should we try to take over Mars before Musk does) or Olam ha-Ba, which is quite safe for frum Yidden.
We should realize that the period starting with the end of World War II has been a “golden age” and is unlikely to continue and we should expect to return to what was normal in the past.
In America, pro-Hamas members of the socio-economic elites endorse what Hamas did on Oct. 7, and feel free to attack Jews. There is a strong movement to ban Jews from elite universities. And the political party that includes, and arguably is dominated by the anti-Semites is leading in the election.
We perhaps might be able to relocate to “Red States” but they have their own problems, and would still be in the United States. There are very few countries in which both Islam and “WOKE” are opposed but none have ever had strong Jewish communities in the past. While relocating Jews to a different planet has been discussed both in the real world (wasn’t practical in the 1940s) and science fiction, that probably isn’t practical for at least a few more generations.
Doing tseuvah might help, but most Jews are too attached to modern culture and perqs to give it up.
Ex-CTLawyer: You must have flunked geography. Uman is in the Ukraine, which was part of the late Soviet Union, for whom World War II began in June 1941. Other than the risk of being arrested and sent to Siberia, there was no problem visiting Uman for Rosh ha-Shana in 1939 and 1940.
The English phrase is “caught between a rock and a hard place”.
The DINOs and RINOs both support Israel, as well as support a strong pro-democracy foreign policy. But the current situation is that the Democrats have gone WOKE and the Republicans have gone MAGA, and neither of them support a policy that would result in the United States actively opposing the alliance of Russia, China and Iran. Israel’s best chance for survival is that either: 1) one of the parties will lose so badly that their former leadership (today’s DINOs and RINOs) can retake control; 2) a third party will be formed by the DINOs and RINOs, with a foreign policy reflecting the mid-20th century “Cold War” bi-partisan consensus.
My suggestion is that Israel should be pursuing a policy of being self-reliant, which they clearly aren’t doing.
ujm: Ukraine is anxious for non-Jews (and even Jews to come), especially if they have combat experience. In fact, nothing would make the Ukrainians happier than millions of tourists from the NATO countries. Of course it would be strictly BYO (bring your own rifle, ammunition). If you want to fly in, they prefer F-35s. Unfortunately, coming by ship is not allowed since Turkey has exercised its treaty right to close the Bosphorus to belligerent shipping.
In all fairness, how many Yidden (voluntarily) visited Poland and Ukraine during the last war they had in the area (1941-1945). Sane people don’t go touristing in combat zones, most people do try to prevent insane relatives from hurting themselves.
NonImpeditiRationeCogitationis: So if you train an LLM on stuss, what makes you think it will produce wisdom. Like every computer program since the first ones in the 1940s, “garbage in, garbage out”. In a practical legal sense, the programmer as well as the user should be strictly liable for injuries “caused” by an AI.
AI is a computer program. It has whatever intelligence the programmer has and no more. It can calculate fast. If a fool programs it, the AI will spout foolishness. “Garbage In, Garbage Out” is as valid as it always was.
That is only true if the Israelis are unable or unwilling to defend themselves (e.g. they do have weapons of mass destruction, don’t they).
Based on their public statements, neither Harris nor Trump would go to war to save Israel, even if it was being attacked by the combined forces of China, Russia and Iran. Trump believes in “America First” isolationism, and the Democrats are skeptical of Israel’s bona fides (and remember, the dominant wing of the party to which Harris and Walz are associated, are the ones demonstrating in favor of Hamas and its agenda).While Trump might turn into an interventionist, “freedom agenda” Reaganite, and Harris might turn out to be just as pro-Israel as Biden, if not more (and have a John F. Kennedy like attitude towards to “axis” opposing American interests), if that doesn’t happen the Israelis need to rely of their own forces and military industrial complex if they want to survive (they also could rely on a Nes by doing tseuvah, but Israelis consider tseuvah a fate worse than be destroyed by the Arabs).
If your cost of living is more than you can afford, you need to be more frugal and more modest. If you are living better than a kollel family with poor connections, no supportive parents and a spouse who spends most of her time doing childcare, you need to cut back expenses.
If you like economics, businesses and math, accounting is fine. If you want to get filthy rich, you’ll have to move over to management. Pays well but is soul crushing. Note that if Ha-Shem really wanted you to be rich, your parents would have left you a trust fund.
Students normally take vacation. They are infamous for it in all cultures. Fortunately, our students don’t get into (much) mischief. And okay, in the past it used to take a week or two to go home (back when most walked and fasted transportation was an ox-cart or s stage coach). One should also note that nothing requires a student to use a vacation for goofing off. It isn’t like Tisha B’Av where learning Torah is prohibited.
Ex-CTLawyer: If you were brought up as Zionist, why are you not an “Ex-Israel Lawyer”. The last Zionist made aliyah in the early 1950s. In America there are only Hareidim and “fans” of the Medinah.
Given the growth of anti-Semitism in the Democratic party, I expect that many non-Zionists will be moving there in the near future (the only other options are the hope the “Progressive Democrats” are totally wiped out in the next election, or migration to “red” states).
The view of the Hareidi rabbanim, going back to the 19th century, was that Zionism would lead to severe problems including a permanent war with the goyim. Those rabbanim have been vindicated.
Practically, if America is no longer an option for frum Jews, that leave only aliyah, regardless of what one things of the government. Once it is clear that the Democrats are in control, and are controlled by the WOKE anti-Semites, staying in America becomes very dubious. Of course, Harris might pull a “Sister Soulija” on the WOKE faction, and Trump’s MAGA might still emerge triumphant, or the country could divide and we could move to the Red States. But otherwise, it seems the Zionists are having the last laugh.
yechiell: the government already admitted that they count as “died of Covid” someone who died of something else but whose corpse tested positive for Covid. And according to the official statistics, most death were older people who were dying of something to begin with. As early as March 2020, random testing revealed that the overwhelming number of people who tested positive for Covid did not get seriously ill. They should have limited to “shutdown” to old people and those with serious conditions (which made them at risk for flu). Note that the vaccine did not significantly reduce the chance of testing positive for COVID, which is why most people became skeptical of it (though it did reduce the already small possibility of dying from Covid).
Other the the initial “emergency” powers he claimed, Trump did the right thing by encouraging research and development of a vaccine. He made a big mistake in allowing the massive shutdowns which required massive federal handouts, which led to inflation (conveniently, after he left office, and for which the Democratic Congress was equally to blame)
You are dealing with very complicated rules from federal, state and local public health officials. Compared to them, getting a hecksher is easy.
You might be able to make free samples for friends or prospective investors but to avoid getting arrested talk to a lawyer used to working with the food industry.
Trump initially bought the COVID hoax and claimed all sorts of emergency powers. However the distortion of medical resources is probably what killed most people. By treating COVID as an existential crisis, regular medical care was disrupted (e.g. in person doctor visits, access to ERs, treatments that required using hospital resources). After the data came out that only a small percentage of people infected actually became ill, and almost all recovered without medical intervention, and that the fatalities were primarily old people who were in poor health to begin with – Trump back down for supporting the extreme measures the civil servants were enacting but wasn’t able to disrupt it. He should be blamed for not stopping the shutdowns and for not ending the emergency declaration.
If you are in an area with both Jews (meaning sukkahs) and trees, one can l most assume anyone who professionally works with trees (“tree doctors”) knows what to do and advertises in whatever advertising mediums exist in the area. Especially with a tall tree, one should not even think about doing it yourself unless you anxious to spend sukkos in a sukkah made from the skin of a long extinct and somewhat ill defined critter, albeit in good company.
Abstaining or voting for a protest candidate means you are equally happy with Harris and Trump, and believe they will follow similar policies on the issues that matter to you. If your big concern is need for a balanced budget (the late Tea Party’s agenda), you are probably right. On most other issues, you are probably wrong, though on international relations both candidates are trying to avoid taking a strong stand either way.
Both parties are splitting. The traditional Republicans (now known as RINOs) are similar to the Bushes, Reagan and Eisenhower, with a strong bias towards a strong national defense, a global perspective, support for free trade and fiscal responsibility. The traditional Democrats (now know as DINOs) have their roots in Democratic presidents going back to Franklin Roosevelt, up to but not really including Obama, and are a lot closer to RINOs than to the WOKE wing that now controls the Democratic party.
One possibility is that the future will be three party: MAGA, WOKE and a DINO-RINO coalition. The alternative is that the MAGA will realize they need the RINOs, and/or the WOKE will realize they need the DINOs, and the two party system will survive unchanged.
Among goyim (the ones who invented baseball), baseball caps are worn by both male and females. One should note that it is possible to make a cap more feminine (the teams sometimes give away “women’s” caps on Mothers’ Day).
The “Lone soldier” program covers any Israeli soldier with no close family in the country. It is set up and run by the Israeli military. Assistance includes extra pay and arrangements of a place to go home while on leave. In other countries, it is very unusual for a soldier to have no family in the country (an interesting exception is France whose Légion étrangère includes many non-citizens with no family in the country, and for whom special arrangements are made).
1. Most of the military leadership in the United States is conservative, not socialist. Marxism never caught on here.
2. A major component of the armed forces of the United States is guaranteed by the 2nd amendment, and they tend to be Republicans
3. Almost half the surface forces of the organized military are under state, not federal, control.
4. American have a tradition of free elections going back to the middle ages, whereas the Spanish countries only had their first free elections in the 19th century, and have no democratic (small “d”) tradition
5. Americans have a tradition of the military not seizing power (which originated with George Washington), Spanish countries don’tIF Ha-Shem wanted Hebrew to be pronounced a certain way, there would have been a sound recording at Sinai. Also in the above discussions, note that most Ashkenzim routinely mispronounce א, ע and ה. Indeed if Ha-Shem wanted Lashon Kodesh to be constant and unchanging, we would have been required to use a different language on a daily basis, since living languages constantly change over time.
Have you noticed than in English the gutteral “gh” which is “correctly” pronounced like a hes (ח) is almost always mispronounced (note that in words of German origin it is sometimes written “ch”, but also mispronounced. Have you noticed that virtually no English-speaker can read books written in English from the time of Rashi, and it is difficult to read English books from the period of the early Achronim without special training, and that native English speakers from different countries have trouble understanding each other (imagine some who grew up speaking Brooklynese trying to talk to someone from the Australian outback, or even from the American south – though English dialects have been reuniting since the inventions of new mass media in the 20th century).
So stop worry, and say Baruch ha-Shem that Lashon Kodesh is a living language, richly able to absorb new words, and never suffered the fate of Etruscan or Minoan Linear A (languages which never get butchered).
Evil people die all the time. If it was clearly a miracle (נס) or if he was someone threatening our existence, it might be an occasion for the gedolim to declare a yuntuf. The individual killed was a soldier fighting Medinat Yisrael, who in accordance with traditional of soldier everywhere and everywhen, specialized in killing civilians (technically illegal under international law, especially if your side loses the war). Since Nazi soldiers died on every day of the year (not heard, they lost millions and there are less than 400 days, so it is as mathematical certainty that every day is the anniversary of the death of a Nazi). Note than during World War II, which was a real threat to our existence, we didn’t cancel tachnun to celebrate the death of a Nazi. And the act he was killed in a very ordinary way by the Israeli forces makes it a stretch to say it was a miracle..
Living languages are like that. If you a pure language, consider Latin or Sumerian (of course, arguably French and Spanish are “butchered” Latin).
Also remember we get to take a vacation every week, no to mention yuntuf and especially Hol ha-Moed.
Should Jews go on vacation while Eretz Yisrael is ruled by goyim and non-frum Jews, and Torah scholars are a persecuted minority?
1. Until the earlier 20th century, most women had full time jobs working on farms. Only the super-rich got sit around managing the household (which meant supervising a large number of servants). Middle class urban women ran businesses, engaged in home manufacturing, or had jobs as servants. To be a “traditional” wife who never had to have a career, you had to be wealthy. It wasn’t just Jewish women who worked for a living.
2. Given that the secular elite are proving unable to have children, there is a high probability that they will die out. This will be a messy matter when in about 40 years senior citizens have to cope with programs as social security cutting benefits, while most voters will be the younger persons who are having children. Already some countries are suffering from falling populations.
If the Democrats appease their WOKE, they risk losing their center. If the Republicans (meaning Trump) appease their center, their MAGA base will still vote for Trump. The question is whether a “progressive” such as Harris find a way to appeal to the center without alienating the left, but she has an advantage which is the left is suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” so as long as Trump is the opponent, she can say whatever she wants. The real issue is whether Harris is clever enough to move to the center. Having chosen Vance, Trump can make an effort to recapture the center.
Trump seems to be getting cleverer, and it isn’t clear if the Democrats are (they should have dumped Biden six months ago, but then they would risk a far-left person similar to Bernie Sanders winning the convention).
Perhaps in 2028 there will a “Reagan-like” Conservative running for president. Of course by that time Taiwan will be a Chinese province, the South China sea will be a Chinese lake, Eastern Europe will be under Russian control, and the most important foreign language to learn in Eretz Yisrael will be Farsi. It is always possible that Harris or Trump will evolve, but at this point it doesn’t look like it.
Her views reflect those of most of the Democratic party leadership. Unassimilated Jews are “deplorables” in need of being cancelled. Not the Democrats’ attacks on yeshivos, not to mention their overall antagonism towards religion including their support of abortion and puberty blockers (a.k.a. castration drugs). If you don’t like them, vote for some other party.
Note that once you decide that Jews should assimilate, and that Torah is a myth, the Jewish claims to Eretz Yisrael become very weak. The Democrats secularism bodes ill for Yidden, both in America and Eretz Yisrael.
1. Many Democrats have been calling for violence against Trump whereas Trump never called for anything more than a demonstration against the Congress.
2. If Trump is very clever, he’ll announce an end to “lawfare” and propose a statute to make it very hard to sue or prosecute people for political purposes including rules on standing to sue, disqualification of prosecutors who announce they have a goal of prosecuting political enemies, venue rule changes, charging attorney fees for lawsuits bought for harassment, etc. He might start by offering a pardon to Hunter Biden, as someone whose prosecution was clearly political. By becoming the candidate who favors a “return to normalcy”, he will increase his chance of a landslide (and on the other hand, seeking revenge will help the Democrats).
Secular Jews (i.e. Americans of Jewish descent) have not necessarily switched. If they are switching, expect New York to go back to being “purple”, including New York City. That hasn’t happened yet.