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How much of the groyper problem can be alleviated if Jews were primarily right-wingers? Did things like had a right-wing ADL etc? I think the right has very good reasons to dislike the Jews and it’s because historically Jews have mostly been bad to the right.
Current leftist politics especially the third-worldists are at their core anti-Jew because the Jews are not third-worldists people. I don’t think the right has a similar ideological issue with Jewish interests and the big issue is most Jewish political resources played for the other team.
I think that visible shifting of Jews towards the right would possibly (one way or another) mitigate the groyper problem, yeah. However I do think the timing and numbers will be important, otherwise instead the right could end up in a civil war like the left.
The truth is though that the groypers just aren't going to have institutional support on the right, I don't think. There aren't really right-wing racist billionaires. From what I can tell on the left the institutional support comes from political machines, and I don't think there are any groyper political machines either, just Discord servers. Which is not nothing, but I think the main thing they have going for them is the bipartisan opinion turn against Israel over the last couple of years.
“There aren’t really right-wing racists billionaires”
Have you heard of Elon Musks? Likely Peter Thiel but I don’t think he’s tweeted as explicitly as Musks.
If the right pulls in Jewish votes it’s likely because Jews begin to embrace racism and begin to see the third world/first world political dynamic. And this is a Jewish trait. Israeli Jews do have a lot of ethnonationalism and “Jewish blood” beliefs.
Yeah, what I should have written is along the likes of what hydro wrote below.
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There’s a few right wing racist billionaires, but they’re not antisemitic.
Musk may not be anti-semitic personally, but I wouldn't want to have to convince a sceptical Jew given the way he signal-boosts anti-semitic memes on X.
Musk isn't personally anti-semitic or racist, he's just on a lot of drugs and mad at the political left.
Wilkes and Dunn are actual white supremacists, albeit moderate ones. I know this through my connections within the Texas republican party, both pro-Wilkes-and-Dunn and anti, too, this isn't some libbed out conspiracy theory about nonexistent racism.
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