At the end of September, Public Discourse published a series of columns about voting for Trump. Or not. Mostly not. Mostly ewww.
Brandon McGinley argues the usual yadda-yadda that Christians have no home in either political party. I don’t know about you, but my home is where my family lives. I don’t look for a home in a political party. But I do know which one is better for the common good, and it’s not even close.
Charlie Camosy proposes that our political home is something called the American Solidarity Party. Keep in mind, Camosy is the guy who says we are required by our faith not to eat tasty, juicy animals. Keep in mind, too, that a vote for the American Solidarity Party is a vote for the Democrats and all that means.
Hunter Baker says Trump has ruined conservatism, but we should hold our noses and vote for him anyway.
The most robust endorsement of Trump in this package of essays is by Ralph Hancock, who nonetheless describes Trump’s voice as an “irksome sound” and that he is a “vulgar, ill-mannered human specimen.” With endorsements like these, who needs Bill Kristol?
What sophisticates seem not to understand is that the great unwashed — myself among them — actually love him. Have you seen one of his rallies? One of the new chants, along with the old chestnut “lock her up,” is “We-love-you! We-love-you! We-love-you!” We love the big galoot.
Put aside all his outstanding policy accomplishments, both foreign and domestic, we actually love his personality. We love his humor. This will shock the sophistos. I mean, it is the height of sophistication to say, “Trump may have done good things policy-wise but — tut-tut — you have to look past his personality. Have you seen those tweets?”
We thought it was hilarious when he invited the Russians to “find” Hillary’s 30,000 emails. We laughed out loud when he said, “Maybe I will run for a third term.” Or when he looked skyward and suggested he was the “chosen one” to deal with China.
When he talks to 20,000 people, he holds them in the palm of his hand largely through humor — humor that his opponents almost certainly get, but they use against him nonetheless by pretending he was serious. Lesley Stahl did this schtick on the 60 Minutes interview when she asked him about begging suburban women to love him. Lesley, he was doing a bit.
One of my favorites occurred earlier this year at CPAC, the annual jamboree for conservatives held near Washington, D.C. Trump was riffing on the Democrat primary challengers, and he smacked a carom shot off Elizabeth Warren and right into Shorty Mike Bloomberg. Warren walloped Bloomberg in his first debate, something Bloomberg wasn’t exactly used to. Trump laughed. Bloomberg “didn’t know what hit him. He’s going, ‘Oh, get me off this stage’.” And then Trump shrinks. He bends way down, so you only see his head sticking above the podium. Get it? Bloomberg is practically a dwarf. And Trump says in a dying Munchkin voice, “Get me off, get me off this stage…” The CPAC crowd went wild. And what does Trump do? He stood there and milked it. Trump let the laughs roll. He’s a pro.
Trump is a Jewish comedian. You cannot understand his humor without knowing that. New York Jews are tough and hilarious, among the toughest and funniest people on the planet. Trump grew up among them. Like tough Jews everywhere, Trump is a kibitzer. He stands on the street corner cracking wise.
When Trump told the Russians to find Hillary’s emails, he was kibbitzing. When he said cops ought not “to be so nice” when putting MS-13 criminal scum in cop cars, he was kibbitzing. “Maybe I’ll run for a third term?” Kibbitzing. Such kibbitzing drives his enemies wild and makes his fans love him all the more.
We know precisely how to understand Trump. We know what to take seriously, what to brush off, and what deeper messages to take away from his speeches and tweets. His language, syntax, and pronunciation are pure BQE — straight out of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. While he grew up with great wealth, Rabbi Dov Fischer explains that Trump grew up and came of age on construction sites alongside ordinary people. His lexicon and tempo are pure outer borough, a trait Rabbi Fischer says he has in common with Orthodox Jews.
Rabbi Fischer says America’s Orthodox Jewish community is almost unanimous in support of Trump. He says Trump’s support is 70% among Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles and more than 90% around the country. He says it’s more than policy agreement (though it certainly is that). It’s also a common “Borscht Belt” humor. The Borscht Belt was a string of Jewish summer camps in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York—camps like Grossinger’s, the Pioneer, and Kutshers—that spawned comic geniuses like Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Jackie Mason, Neil and Danny Simon, and many others. See The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime for a perfect evocation of that magical time and place.
So, no, we are not holding our noses and voting for him “despite” his personality. We love his personality. We love his humor. He makes us laugh right out loud. It is merely a bonus that his humor drives our betters a little meshuga.
The above comes from an Oct. 28 story by Austin Ruse in Crisis magazine. Ruse is president of the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-FAM).
Jews have learned to fight for their very existence, Trump is fighting for ours. Freedom is not guaranteed, we must never take it for granted. MAGA people, MAGA!
Trump rallies are the most entertaining television. Not many personalities can get people to line up for hours in heat or cold to hear them speak. Wherever his personality comes from, Trump has gifts perfectly suited to times like these. I’ll chant it, We love you.
This must be satire. Truly ridiculous and lots of fun to read!
Dona’s Halloween trick, obviously! God Bless Jews, Trump, and America! Sweet!
Ms. Donna I sure hope you read this before you vote! Don’t condemn your soul for eternity voting Dem. So many souls will be lost this week. If you did, ask for lots penance when you go to confession tomorrow.
Don’t think it’s satire. It explains why I loved Trump from the very beginning. Just didn’t know it. I love the humor that the TDS folks don’t get.
Interesting. I’m going to check with my wife, who grew up in Queens, and a Jewish friend to get their “take” on this!
Austin Ruse, the author, mocked Biden for his stutter. He also goes on wild, hate-filled rants. Austin Ruse represents what is cold and callous. He pretends to be a Catholic intellectual. By defending President Trump’s boorish behavior, he thinks he is also defending his own boorishness.
Austin Ruse is a real Catholic with real Catholic sensibilities, sorry you think that’s anything but great. Inviting everyone to look up his stuff, that’s good reading!
Austin Ruse said that women’s studies leaders should be taken out and shot. He was fired from his radio program because of those comments. Ruse thinks insults are arguments. If this website is featuring Austin Ruse because it agrees with him, then there’s reason to think twice about coming back here. Ruse thinks he’s the Michael Savage of Catholic commentary.
When and where did Mr. Ruse say that?
(I’m asking because I agree that such would be totally inappropriate.)
Scroll through the headlines here. What do you. mean by “featuring?”
Bishop McElroy, Cardinal Sarah, Governor Newsom, Joe Biden, Archbishops Cordileone and Gomez, Amy Coney Barrett and many others have been the subject of stories.
Please stop the character assignation of a good man. Mr. Ruse has done more good to stop the disastrous and evil attempts of the UN to impose abortion and radical homosexual indoctrination throughout the whole world.
Was given a MAGA hat for Christmas in 2015 by my daughters then boyfriend. I know a winner when I see him. Trump ‘20, ‘24, ‘28….
When young, I used to complain about the New York Jews– whom Trump does resemble! Realistic, sarcastic, unkind, unwashed, “rude-and-crude,” rough-shod, “hard-nosed!” Not a bit of social sensitivity nor refinements, in many of them! But they also could be hilariously funny at times! The one thing I did like, at times–was their honesty. Not their unkind, brutal, rough-shod “honesty” (too insensitive and “hard-nosed!”) about their social observations of people– but their honesty about many things in life– and their backbone, to stand there, and say things that were honestly truthful, not caring what anyone thought of their rude behavior! In this case– their “rudeness” was a gem! A diamond, for a society that was often “too polite” and “too nice” (or, too “hornswaggled” and too scared, by social customs) to admit to the truth, on some things! For that, I thought highly of them! When Michael Savage (a New York Jew) became popular on the radio, my elderly dad, in his final days, used to listen to him, and enjoyed him greatly– but although I agreed with “rough-neck” Michael Savage on many things, I could not stand to listen to him, on the radio! But he didn’t bother my dad at all! I loved Savage’s phrase, “San Fran-sicko,” though, and immensely enjoyed using that name for this city– so hilarious and true! I have learned also, to ignore Donald Trump’s voice — and to thank God for his strange, paradoxical, and wonderful “precious gems” of 100% belief and support for faith in God, for the Bible, for pro-life, pro-family, pro-religious freedoms, pro-Christianity, even “pro-Catholic!” And to strongly support our great country– and protect it– which many view as obnoxiously rude, unkind, and “discriminatory!” We are so blessed to have his Presidential leadership, during this terrible era in our nation’s history!
The New York Jews “take the cake,” on this one– but as everyone knows, many New Yorkers of all ethnic/religious backgrounds, are actually similar in characteristics, to the New York Jews! — including many Catholics! Take Catholic New Yorker Bill Donahue, for example, the excellent, outspoken head of the Catholic League.
Many New York Jews, as well as other New Yorkers, and the excellent Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League– are very well-meaning, charitable, and seek the good of society. This recent parade of New York Jews for Trump, was wonderful, and they endured totally unjust, un-American, babyish persecution for it, too! God bless them!
Catholic League President Bill Donahue wrote an excellent article on Oct. 30th, regarding the fact that Trump did not invent incivility. The article is titled, “Trump Did Not Create Incivility.” Our society has become tragically immoral, secularized, and anti-Christian, since the filthy “hippie” 1960s– propagating coarseness, rudeness, incivility, and indecency, and filth, everywhere. Our once-great country, based on excellent Judeo-Christian Biblical principles– has descended into a filthy, foul, diabolic gutter– indecency and incivility are ignorantly defended now, as babyish, violent, filthy, “free expressions of speech!” I say, our poor country is badly in need of a massive re-conversion to Christ! I do not believe in babyish “freedom.” That is mankind’s first and most tragic mistake! Instead– I believe in “responsibility!” Responsibility to God, family, comminity, and country!