Donald Trump is likely to win a majority of the orthodox Jewish vote — despite his "unsettling, nativist rhetoric and policies," Armin Rosen, who reports frequently on terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and international security, writes in Tablet Magazine.
"Donald Trump is a malevolent figure for many American Jews. The Republican candidate's allegedly anti-Semitic cast of supporters, coupled with his nativist rhetoric and policies have seemingly unsettled the country's cosmopolitan, left-leaning Jewish community," Rosen writes.
"But at least one group of Jews will still vote for him in sizable numbers and, if history is any guide, a disproportionate number of Jewish voters for Trump are likely to be Orthodox, a sizable constituency that does not appear to share their coreligionists' sense of anxiety or horror at the possibility of a Trump presidency."
Rosen, a graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary's joint degree program, adds:
"Support for Trump becomes proportionally more frequent on the more religious end of the observance spectrum, suggesting that Orthodox voters are less likely to be repelled by someone who an ideologically diverse range of American Jews consider to be an enabler of anti-Semitism, among other bigotries."
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