Did Eric Cantor Lose Because He's Jewish? Of Course.
Did Eric Cantor lose because of his Judaism? Everybody’s been
tiptoeing around the question for the last two days, so let’s just come
out and say it: Of course he did. That and redistricting.
The Virginia Republican leadership accidentally did
him in by trying to build him a safer district. They took away some of
the purple zones in Richmond and its suburbs and giving him some solid
red countryside further north.
What the GOP’s redistricting mavens forgot to factor
in — what’s eluded pretty much the entire chattering class wrestling
with this earthquake — is that the prairie fire that’s turned so much of
middle America red is as much about Christianity as anything else.
And if it’s about Christianity, then it’s also about
not-Jewish. How does that factor in? Most talk of Jews in politics
begins and ends with Israel and anti-Semitism. If it’s not one of those
two, we’re done. Hence the endless repetition of the line that Dave
Wasserman of Cook Political Report gave to the New York Times: “You
can’t ignore the elephant in the room.” No, you can’t. But nobody knew
what to make of the elephant. (Actually, it’s more about the elephant
that’s suddenly out of the room, isn’t it?) Even Wasserman didn’t
mention it in his Cook coverage.
"Oy Vey" Cantor’s Jewishness mattered because we tell you what matters, we're gods chosen! Now
can we please talk about Hitler and what a bad boy he was!
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