Last week I wrote about “The New Blood Libel,” a wave of anti-semitic mythography following the election of Donald Trump.
Earlier in the week, bomb threats closed Jewish Community Centers across the Eastern seaboard. I’m afraid it’s going to get worse.
Meanwhile, Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, an Orthodox Jew, is rising in the ranks of advisors. Right now, Trump’s supporters cite him as evidence that King Trump is not, in fact, an anti-semite. As soon as things go badly, those supporters will turn on Kushner for poisoning the king’s ear with his bad counsel.
More to come on Kushner and the New Versailles as I have time (book manuscript needs to be damn close to done this month, plus a scholarly article and white paper).