For supporters who cared only about a single issue—for example, appointing conservative judges to the Supreme Court, getting tax cuts, or backing Israel—Trump’s delivery on that issue was all that mattered. A Republican donor on the board of the Republican Jewish Coalition, when asked about the divisive tensions Trump had exacerbated among American Jews who were critical of Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline policies, said, “My God, when I look at what he’s done for Israel, I’m not going to take issue with anything he’s said or done.”25 What about the rising number of anti-Semitic hate crimes in
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