Challenge: Jews part of GOP base

I really don't think its possible with a POD of 1950 or later. Socialism, internationalism and secularism were a very strong force among the Jewish-American population since long before the Great Depression, and those types of values are quite anathema to the GOP.
 
If I said Jews were left-wing out of self-interest, that might come off as anti-Semitic (assuming Jews only care about themselves or their kindred and/or they're unprincipled).

Plus I did acknowledge "fear of the religious right," even though I suspect the dangers of the RR is overblown to keep them (and other non-Christians) in line.
No, if you Said that it would be being Honest, And Jews are Nothing if Not Self-Introspective ...

And Yes, we do Look out for our Community First, that Too is One of The Lessons of Assimilation ...

As for The Rest, if Anything, The Dangers of an American Christian Theocracy have been UNDER-Emphasized; Look at Iran, Saudi Arabia, Heck, Even Israel, if you Want Examples of Exactly What Always Happens, Whenever The Wall between Religion and Government is Eroded!
 

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As for The Rest, if Anything, The Dangers of an American Christian Theocracy have been UNDER-Emphasized; Look at Iran, Saudi Arabia, Heck, Even Israel, if you Want Examples of Exactly What Always Happens, Whenever The Wall between Religion and Government is Eroded!

Are you aware of what those countries were like before theocratic rule?
 
Are you aware of what those countries were like before theocratic rule?
Unfortunately, Neither Israel nor Saudi Arabia Really Existed in their Modern Forms Prior to their Inception as Theocracies ...

Iran Under The Shah OTOH, While Not The Utopian Paradise it Liked to Claim, had Just Begun a Series of Egalitarian Reforms; if these had Been Allowed to Continue, Instead of Being Brutally Suppressed by The Theocratic Government that Followed, Iran would be a MUCH Different Place, Today ...

Luckily, No Modern State has Even had a Theocracy Imposed upon it; My Mind Quails at The Implications if One Even does!

:eek:
 
Luckily, No Modern State has Even had a Theocracy Imposed upon it; My Mind Quails at The Implications if One Even does!

:eek:

I think an American theocracy is a lot less likely than something analogous to Iran--an undeveloped society undergoing a top-down forced modernization reacting against it a la Iran.

And you ought to concede the idea of an American "Christian" theocracy is a good thing to scare the little (fill-in-the-religious minority) girls and boys and keep the votes and money flowing.

And again, will you stop with the bizarre capitalizations?
 
As for The Rest, if Anything, The Dangers of an American Christian Theocracy have been UNDER-Emphasized; Look at Iran, Saudi Arabia, Heck, Even Israel, if you Want Examples of Exactly What Always Happens, Whenever The Wall between Religion and Government is Eroded!

What proof do you have of the dangers of an "American Christian Theocracy"?

If by an ACT, you mean a government support by right-wing Christian voters that implements their ideas, how is that any more theocratic than a government supported by left-wing Jewish voters that implements their ideas?

I don't think UHC or gun control is any more theocratic than not funding abortion abroad.
 
A Christian theocracy is a bogeyman of more than a few people on this list; in the past year I've seen two or three threads about it. And given the foibles of current Western politics, overblown fears of Muslim theocracy can be branded as racist, overblown fears of Christian theocracy cannot. (Nevermind that there's a lot more socially conservative Christian fundamentalist African-Americans than people think; and that Hispanic immigrants are mostly Roman Catholic, and often more serious about it than native-born Catholics. I would not be surprised if the Democratic Party is headed for another rupture in its base a decade or two down the line.)

Back to the thread topic--a conservative GOP-voting Jewish population is unlikely, but not quite ASB. In OTL, many of the most influential original neo-conservatives were Jewish.

Perhaps: Israel loses an Arab-Israeli war, and much slaughter occurs. Jewish politics in the U.S. become, not so much socially conservative, but very hawkish. Since the mid-1960s, the Republican Party has been the more hawkish party. And there you go.
 
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