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RebYidd23: We are deplorables. We cling to religion. Your comment reminds one of the famous line of a German who said at first they he didn’t object when they came for Jews since he wasn’t a Jew, and ends with him stating that when they came for him, there was no one left to object.
Our views on a wide variety of matters are totally incorrect by the left-wing (Democratic party, circa 2018) standard of political correctness. We reject that which “normal” people consider to be beyond question. Even if in economic matters we are closer to the Democrats (and we love entitlements, in fact, we invented them and the Democrats got the idea from us), the attack on halacha is a “game changer.” We could never tolerate a demand the synagogs not differentiate on the basis of gender, or that opposition to non-maritial sexual activites is equivalant to support racism (and thus a basis to close schools or deny tax exemption to institutions). We could never tolerate any restriction on bris milah. Our only hope for surviving in the United States, is that the Republicans so soundly crush the Democrats that the Democrats move away from their fanatical ultra-secular political correctness, and return to the “big tent” welcoming all minorities, including people like us, and including all religions, as was the case as little as a generation ago.