Abigail Pogrebin
Tablet, Oct. 28, 2024
“Antisemitism on Oct. 7 was a wake-up call for me to reevaluate the entire left’s policy on everything.”
Please raise your hand. How many of you feel pretty enthusiastic—as opposed to ambivalent—about voting for your candidate, Donald Trump? I see six of you: Brent, Marianne, Linda, Pia, Alanna, Sophia. For those of you who are not enthusiastic about your candidate, I’d love to hear you explain why you’re voting for him anyway.
Steven: There’s no alternative. It’s a binary decision. Kamala is a disaster, and I just pray that Trump brings in good people with him when he wins.
Justin: I am begrudgingly voting for Trump. I think he’s a terrible human, but I can’t vote for Kamala because I think she is a disaster for Israel. And I think we’re in a state in the world where we’re moving toward chaos and conflict, and she’s behind the power curve on that, wanting to basically hold a status quo that no longer exists. In a situation where we’re being tilted toward conflict and chaos, I would rather have someone a little unstable and a little unpredictable than someone whose mindset is not reflecting reality.
Isaac: I’m more than begrudgingly voting for Trump. I feel horrible about voting for Trump—his spirit of meanness. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg with him.
Hannah: For the last election, I felt like character was the most important thing in a leader, and we kept hearing that. In preparation for this conversation today, I wrote down my top issues, which I think Trump is far and away better for, one being geopolitics and safety in the Middle East, two being freedom of speech, three being immigration, and four being this broader DEI issue, which as a Jewish woman, I think that having that embedded in the ideology of the left—that Kamala has embraced—has been detrimental to Jewish students and youth around the country.
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