my feelings exactly

[yucca]

After all, for large parts of the U.S. political spectrum, including virtually all Democrats, substantial numbers of independents, some Republicans, and a huge majority of American Jews, Trump is seen as beyond the pale, outside the bounds of normal political conduct. For Israel to embrace and exalt a leader with authoritarian tendencies who is viscerally offensive to so many core American supporters of Israel—who is seen to sully his office on a daily basis, to disregard truth with malice aforethought, to sympathize with white supremacists, to impugn the free press as the enemy of the people, to brag about assaulting women, to lack the simplest attributes of human decency and empathy, and to tear at the fabric of America’s civic and constitutional culture without a second thought—would be to ignore the indignation, disappointment, and raw anger this will provoke in wide swaths of the American public.

Whether this would create a lasting rift is hard to know, but it would be foolish to take that risk.