After President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in November’s presidential election, making historic gains across the identity politics spectrum that were presumed to be safe bets for left-wing intersectional ideologues, Democrats were left in the dust, scratching their heads and asking themselves, “What on earth happened?”
One voting bloc that swung heavily toward Trump and the Republican Party compared to previous elections was the so-called Jewish vote. Motivated by the explosion of antisemitism in the United States, such as on-campus support for Hamas, institutional defense of genocidal rhetoric directed at Jewish Americans, and the open celebration of ahistorical pro-terrorist propaganda throughout the radical wing of the Democratic Party, Jewish people, especially those in religious communities, abandoned their Democratic roots en masse. In New York state, for example, Trump’s support among Jewish voters rose a stunning 50%.
