His support has been unwavering and from the heart. “The fact is that my father in law is an incredibly loving and tolerant person who has embraced my family and our Judaism since I began dating my wife. A recent New York Times profile described him in its headline as the candidate’s “quiet fixer.” As the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign has progressed, Kushner’s influence within its often muddled hierarchy has grown. The 35-year-old publisher has been married to Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who converted to Judaism before their wedding, since 2009. “The difference between me and the journalists and Twitter throngs who find it so convenient to dismiss my father in law is simple. “I go into these details, which I have never discussed, because it’s important to me that people understand where I’m coming from when I report that I know the difference between actual, dangerous intolerance versus these labels that get tossed around in an effort to score political points,” he wrote. Kushner wrote of his grandmother’s escape from the Holocaust, and how she met his grandfather – who’d lived in a hole he’d dug in the woods to hide from Nazis for three years. “What do we call the people who won’t hire minorities or beat others up for their religion?” “If even the slightest infraction against what the speech police have deemed correct speech is instantly shouted down with taunts of ‘racist’ then what is left to condemn the actual racists?” he wrote. Kushner cites his own relatives’ experience in the Holocaust as proof that he profoundly understands anti-Semitism and does not believe Donald Trump near qualifies.“In my opinion, accusations like ‘racist’ and ‘anti-Semite’ are being thrown around with a carelessness that risks rendering these words meaningless,” Kushner wrote.
His white-supremacist supporters are listening. Whether he’s a racist person or whether Republicans will just blame other Americans for being overly politically correct, this is a man who said that Mexicans are sending over rapists, or pointing out “my African-American over there.” There’s a laundry list of these casual-what he makes seem casual-but incredibly charged ideas that, if they seem like nothing to him, that’s incredibly ignorant. In this case, it’s an active campaign, in my mind. It’s not so much an unfortunate coincidence of policy. I think Donald Trump, in his rhetoric and in the images he tweets out, is making very clear that he is establishing himself as the candidate of racists. I think it goes beyond the bloc of supporters. So why should Trump be more responsible for the presence of these people in his party than any other candidate? Playing devil’s advocate a bit here: both Democrats and Republicans throughout their history have often relied on bigots and racists in their voting blocs. Whether it was an accident or on purpose, they’re both equally bad in my mind. But he’s a charming man who’s willing to court and take advantage of white-supremacist voters, either blatantly, with multiple tweets from white-supremacist sources and #AmericaFirst, or so carelessly that it makes me afraid that he would give those hateful groups so much space and leeway to operate. And he leans into it by saying the reason that you think Donald Trump is anti-Semitic is because you’ve never met him. But I will say, there’s obviously a bias.
I’ve never met any of them, so I don’t know what they’re like in person. I think he’s seeing a father-in-law that he’d better keep his mouth shut and support.
What do you think Kushner sees in that test? Let’s work under the hypothesis that Trump is a Rorschach test and not anti-Semitic. and publicity for the campaign that he can’t make a human argument befitting what I would hope to be a man of his intelligence. It also makes me sad that he lives in a bubble of P.R. It makes me wonder if he even reads his paper, first. I even say in my article that I don’t think Donald Trump is an anti-Semite.
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