Did October 7, 2023 change Jewish minds about whether Wokeness and the Great Replacement are going to be good for the Jews? Evidence from the really big donors.
Are Jews really only 2% of the US population? If you mean people who practice Judaism as their religion, that's probably about right. If you mean people of Jewish ancestry, I strongly suspect that number is much too low, especially if you give half credit to children of mixed marriages, of which there are many.
I'm a little surprised to see (in the article) that almost 3/4 of American Jews practice the religion. I guess my family is an outlier. Among myself, my brothers and my first cousins--all 100% Ashkenazi Jews by ancestry--there are more practicing Christians (including one Eastern Orthodox priest) than practicing Jews, and more atheists than either.
Pew Research is totally unreliable. They count everyone who has one drop and who is non-practising. No attachment, no commitment, no nothing. They are doing it for political reasons to impress the Democrat party apparatus.
That might make an impact in 20 or 30 years, but as of now, most of them are still alive. The effects of the cascading birthrates among secular people (including but not limited to Jews) are only beginning to be felt.
That effect is already present from mid-1960s if not earlier. And now, those born in the 1960s are already starting to die out.
Anyway, I saw the demographics for UK Jewish ancestry some years ago (probably quite comparable to the US, Anglo and all that). Anyway, it was surprising how one drop didn't move the needle much much farther.
Sure, there are many mixed-marriages. I go to a Roman Catholic church where the husband is a Brooklyn Italian and the wife is a Brooklyn Jew. She converted. Two percent in a country of 340 million is about 6.4 million Jews. That may be close to being right. Jews tend to live in big cities. I would guess that the Jewish population is negligible in many states. Maine. The Dakotas. Wyoming. Mississippi. West Virginia.
Yep. If you were raised in or near a big city, if you have 2 or more SD above mean IQ, your life path has provided a skewed view of the demographics of these United States. If you are 3 or gf 4 SD above mean the country might seem half Jewish.
Not really. Halachically, maybe 1% of the population are Jewish. Halachic and practicing is even less, maybe 0.3%. Pure bloodstock is somewhere between the first and second quota.
It’s probably based on census data, which ask people for self identification, so it’s not a perfect proxy for either practitioners of the Jewish religion (for which it’s too high of a number) or Jewish ethnicity (for which it’s far too low). If you count everyone with at least one (ethnically) Jewish parent, that’s probably closer to 5% of the population at least, considering the rates of intermarriage in recent generations.
So you've also noted how much AI loves, loves, loves the word 'delve'. It's quite strange; it's not exactly an uncommon word, but if AI is picking the most popular combinations of words to put together, it's not the verb I would expect to come up as often as it does.
Other little clues that you're reading AI-generated text:
***Constructions using 'Not only . . . but also . . .'
***Adjectives, examples of concepts, and other constructions being grouped into lists comprising three items -- this starts to become maddening in some documents once you notice it
***Junior high school A-student vocabulary such as 'myriad', 'a rich tapestry', 'nuanced', and so on.
A new tell is its enthusiasm about whatever you propose. I'm in email communication with a guy at the company selling me a couch and I have been impressed by his responsiveness. In his most recent responses I noticed he is way too impressed by my ideas in the same way that chatGPT is. I asked about coral as a complementary color for a throw pillow and he just doubled down on what an amazing idea that was and how it would go perfectly with my something or other and really pull the room together.
People are recognizing AI writing in the same way they recognize AI art. I believe people will tire of it and strongly voiced prose will become popular.
The Jewish community was shocked to find out that all the BLM supporting they did was for half (I believe) the black community supporting Hamas. Talk about a wake up call. The large faction of Jewish hate within the Democrat party is, for lack of a better word, weird.
I’ve been wondering how the Democrat party was able to hold all their different factions together- or at least get them to vote in unity. Happy to see it finally cracking.
History doesn't start with the civil rights movement.
Jews were big in the slave trade since the Early Middle Ages when the original Ashkenazi were selling central europeans to muslims all the way to the Atlantic Triangular Trade that created the New World black communities.
Jews were also major investors in plantations in many places including the American South where most of them supported the Confederacy and later segregation.
Jews were big parts of the Muslim slave trade. Muslims big raiding grounds were the Balkans, Crimea and the Mediterranean Sea. The men they put to work and the young women were made part of harems. Muslims raided as far north as Ireland and Iceland.
I wrote that Jews were big parts of the trade but not the majority. And the people who did the actual capturing of the slaves were all Muslims. The Jews did none of this.
In Islam the act of castration is considered a sin and strictly forbidden. For example during the Ottoman Empire Jews from Istanbul would buy Christian slaves from the Tatars of Crimea and blacks from Sudan, would castrate them to turn them into eunuchs and then would sell them to harem owners.
So let me get this straight jewe were the most responsible for the civil rights act and helping out blacks in the 1960s but blacks hate them because some Jews were involved in the slave trade in the 1600s? Even though they had absolutely nothing to do with the African slave trade in the US?
It's an intersemitic trope. "Do you know how many Jews were living in the south at the time of the civil war? More than a few 100? Didn't everyone that live in the south support the Confederacy? No the reality is that blacks are very racist in general, forgive me this is black and white based on surveys.
It doesn't help that the story of the Jews basically negates every single excuse blacks can have for not succeeding post hardship.
A middle-eastern muslim cabbie put it to me exactly that way in '05. I asked him and his colleagues what they thought of american blacks. The first guy said, "there's something wrong with those people," and the next one said, "they hate everyone but their own group."
This is precisely accurate. The ADL has been running a survey since the 1960s and close to half of American blacks espouse anti-Semitic views when questioned by a polster. Used to be able to find it on the ADL website of course not that they're woke I can't seem to find it anymore
I just got that vibe from working in Washington DC for forty years. Blacks can't stand Jews. In 1968, during the Martin Luther King riots, the blacks rioted first in the heavily Jewish businesses along 14th Street and plundered them.
The scene in "Annie Hall" with his parents arguing about whether they should fire the maid for stealing is a perfect summary of that generation's often contradictory feelings about blacks. My parents generation was driven from the city, entire neighborhoods of childhood friends reassembling in the 'burbs. My grandparents had a Schvartze cleaning lady. My parents switched to Poles.
My friends grew up with almost no exposure to blacks and remained confident that any problems in the black community must be the fault of whites and would soon go away with vigorous civil rights enforcement.
My impression is they quietly gave up on that in the late 1990s and switched to hispanics and gays. Much more rewarding.
This has been building for decades though. As another comment points out the love-hate relationship between Jews and blacks has always been Jews loving blacks and blacks hating Jews. Up until 2020, Jews thought they could control this, pay off the right black politicians and leaders and they would get in line. Some of them appear to figuring out that isn't going to work with this next generation. They really hate Jews and aren't going to take bribes to keep the rage contained.
Can whites blame Jews then for supporting anti-white rhetoric and movements or is that anti-Semitic? I remember when Elon Musk mentioned the Jewish presence in wokeness and the uproar was immediate.
You can do that, but realize you also have lots of Jews pushing back on the right as well, and also you need to be fair once you understand that Jewish support for the left has a history if you see my other comment.
As I jew I do blame leftist Jews for a lot of our (Also Jewish )problems yes, but with context.
Ultimately if one were to study the two phenomena "antisemitism" versus "Jewish leftism" you will see one as more pervasive and salient than the other.
Another point that I see Steve's making is that there's nothing stopping gentiles from donating more money to causes they believe in, it's just that they haven't done it all that much.
“Banjaxed” would be a good word to describe Democratic feelings on learning that the huddled masses prefer President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho to President Maya Rudolph.
I would assume a lot of the Jewish donors who stayed away or reduced donations to the Dems will 'come home' in the next cycle. Outrage about Oct 7th will have cooled a lot and although there are quite a few antisemitic actors in the activist wing of the party, it's likely they will be mostly sidelined as the party and institutions (like universities) that benefit from Jewish donor largesse deprive them of oxygen in response to tepid or totally withdrawn financial support.
Looking further out is the question of the political disposition of younger Jews in pursuits like academia, media, and business. It appears that young men of all stripes are moving to the right, and if this is sustained and applicable to younger Jewish men (and it appears to me to be so) then as we see Generation Z members move into positions of power, wealth and influence in the 2030s and 2040s there could be really big changes.
I agree with you but for different reasons. I say this as three generations of Jewish American conservative. The left has ignited anti-Semitism in this country by siding with the islamists- which is a huge problem for Israel. But here in the US there's a possibility that right wing anti semitism becomes a bigger hindrance to daily life for Jews at some point. I don't think we're there yet.
This is a little extreme example but,
I can analyze the rise of Nazism in Germany as a reaction to communism and therefore ultimately blame the left for fascism.
Again we are not there yet but to the extent it happens here to some degree, those of us that were paying attention will know who to blame in the big picture, but only as an academic memory.
Thanks for the response. I personally don’t see the right becoming more antisemitic based on my personal circle, but obviously that’s specific to where I live and work, which is in the Midwest. Jews and Catholics here do have their own miniature social circles but broadly speaking are stereotypically Midwestern culturally so people’s affinity groupings tend to follow schools or sports way more than religion. The majority of my male Jewish friends are conservatives, although the wives are usually AWFLs unless they are not Jewish themselves.
Jews going so hard Democrat and supporting civil rights for minorities and sticking to that politically is actually not that irrational historically speaking. People forget that the hatred for Jews was so endemic worldwide at the time of the Holocaust and up to the civil rights era-and even then it only took a breather for a couple decades in the US while still persisting in many parts of the world.
The easiest way to get people to stop hating Jews is not to say hey hating Jews is bad-please stop it- it's easier to say hey nobody should hate anyone not even the blacks.
It turns out that even this approach is unsustainable. I was in Holocaust museum a few years ago and walking through the exhibit that was highlighting how no one helped the Jews in the 30s and 40s The people behind me saying hey that's just like what's happening to the Palestinians today. Horseshoe theory of empathy.
It turns out maybe the only long term solution to Jews hatred (from the Jewish point of
view) is Israeli nukes. The final solution if you will.
'I assign ethnicity based on family background rather than on the personal matter of current degree of faith. Under my system, for instance, Jews get both credit for Einstein and blame for Marx.'
I think this is not very well-reasoned. At least for the period 1800-1950, cultural-ethnic identification is important in addition to (and perhaps more than) racial and religious Judaism. As an objective fact, Marx was not culturally Jewish, and did not ethnically affiliate as Jewish in any way. If Marx was a political donor in America today, it wouldn't tell you anything at all about Jewish influence on politics. As far as I know, even Marx's most fierce opponents at the time did not consider his 'Jewishness' relevant or important. This was something retrojected back after the rise of Jewish communism at the end of the century. Einstein, by contrast, was Jewish enough that he got offered the job of President of Israel.
On the other hand, I don't know really know what it means to give Jews the credit (or the blame...) for the Theory of Relativity. I think Einstein's non-sciency ideas can be analysed profitably in terms of his Jewish identity, though. in truth, they weren't very interesting.
It took several decades for Southern Democrat Whites to become Republican voters. People could see it back in 1964, but it didn't break the surface then. I don't think the Democrats can reorient themselves to become attractive to Jewish donors again. However, the donors won't be able to extricate themselves out of the networks that they created. There are too many personal connections that one would leave behind. Besides, a lot of donors think they can make a difference, which they can't. So it will be a very gradual attrition.
The relevance being that low-IQ anti-Semites like to say things like “66.6% of the top 100 donors are JEWISH, so 66.6% of the funding of the political parties is JEWISH!” It sounds slightly less menacing to say “approximately 5% of the overall funding for political candidates comes from Jewish mega-donors.”(It’s comparable to how they describe companies with Jewish CEOs as controlled by Jews, as if a CEO doesn’t serve at the pleasure of a company’s shareholders.)
Are Jews really only 2% of the US population? If you mean people who practice Judaism as their religion, that's probably about right. If you mean people of Jewish ancestry, I strongly suspect that number is much too low, especially if you give half credit to children of mixed marriages, of which there are many.
It’s about right:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/jewish-americans-in-2020/
I'm a little surprised to see (in the article) that almost 3/4 of American Jews practice the religion. I guess my family is an outlier. Among myself, my brothers and my first cousins--all 100% Ashkenazi Jews by ancestry--there are more practicing Christians (including one Eastern Orthodox priest) than practicing Jews, and more atheists than either.
Atheism always struck me as a very Jewish pursuit😜
Well, when you only have the one god, you only have one thing to disbelieve in.
Lots of agnostic Jews attend on holy days; but this is more an expression of tribal allegiance than religious devotion. Most Jews are agnostic.
That's about right. Pure bloodstock and practising is probably 1 Mio top.
Pew Research is totally unreliable. They count everyone who has one drop and who is non-practising. No attachment, no commitment, no nothing. They are doing it for political reasons to impress the Democrat party apparatus.
If they count everyone who has “one drop” of Jewish blood, or even 1 grandparent out of 4, their number should be FAR higher than 2%.
The one drop have very few kids
That might make an impact in 20 or 30 years, but as of now, most of them are still alive. The effects of the cascading birthrates among secular people (including but not limited to Jews) are only beginning to be felt.
That effect is already present from mid-1960s if not earlier. And now, those born in the 1960s are already starting to die out.
Anyway, I saw the demographics for UK Jewish ancestry some years ago (probably quite comparable to the US, Anglo and all that). Anyway, it was surprising how one drop didn't move the needle much much farther.
Sure, there are many mixed-marriages. I go to a Roman Catholic church where the husband is a Brooklyn Italian and the wife is a Brooklyn Jew. She converted. Two percent in a country of 340 million is about 6.4 million Jews. That may be close to being right. Jews tend to live in big cities. I would guess that the Jewish population is negligible in many states. Maine. The Dakotas. Wyoming. Mississippi. West Virginia.
Yep. If you were raised in or near a big city, if you have 2 or more SD above mean IQ, your life path has provided a skewed view of the demographics of these United States. If you are 3 or gf 4 SD above mean the country might seem half Jewish.
Not really. Halachically, maybe 1% of the population are Jewish. Halachic and practicing is even less, maybe 0.3%. Pure bloodstock is somewhere between the first and second quota.
It’s probably based on census data, which ask people for self identification, so it’s not a perfect proxy for either practitioners of the Jewish religion (for which it’s too high of a number) or Jewish ethnicity (for which it’s far too low). If you count everyone with at least one (ethnically) Jewish parent, that’s probably closer to 5% of the population at least, considering the rates of intermarriage in recent generations.
So you've also noted how much AI loves, loves, loves the word 'delve'. It's quite strange; it's not exactly an uncommon word, but if AI is picking the most popular combinations of words to put together, it's not the verb I would expect to come up as often as it does.
Other little clues that you're reading AI-generated text:
***Constructions using 'Not only . . . but also . . .'
***Adjectives, examples of concepts, and other constructions being grouped into lists comprising three items -- this starts to become maddening in some documents once you notice it
***Junior high school A-student vocabulary such as 'myriad', 'a rich tapestry', 'nuanced', and so on.
In "30 Rock," the comedy writers have a Rule of Three that nothing is funny unless you can cite three examples.
That comes from a basic rule of comedy: if it happens twice (or you say it twice) it has to happen or be said a third time.
I can't read "nuanced" without remembering David Gergen praising early Prez Clinton's private policy ramblings as "thoughtful and nuanced."
A new tell is its enthusiasm about whatever you propose. I'm in email communication with a guy at the company selling me a couch and I have been impressed by his responsiveness. In his most recent responses I noticed he is way too impressed by my ideas in the same way that chatGPT is. I asked about coral as a complementary color for a throw pillow and he just doubled down on what an amazing idea that was and how it would go perfectly with my something or other and really pull the room together.
People are recognizing AI writing in the same way they recognize AI art. I believe people will tire of it and strongly voiced prose will become popular.
The Jewish community was shocked to find out that all the BLM supporting they did was for half (I believe) the black community supporting Hamas. Talk about a wake up call. The large faction of Jewish hate within the Democrat party is, for lack of a better word, weird.
And really ungrateful. Who were the brains that made black civil rights possible, in and out of the Movement?
I’ve been wondering how the Democrat party was able to hold all their different factions together- or at least get them to vote in unity. Happy to see it finally cracking.
I don't see many Jews leaving the Democratic Party. Gaza will eventually blow over.
Yeah, Jews went the usual 70+% Dem in '24.
It doesn't begin with leaving. It begins with dwindling enthusiasm.
That is important. And I think there was an enthusiasm gap in 2024.
Of course, Trump's coalition has the same problem.
History doesn't start with the civil rights movement.
Jews were big in the slave trade since the Early Middle Ages when the original Ashkenazi were selling central europeans to muslims all the way to the Atlantic Triangular Trade that created the New World black communities.
Jews were also major investors in plantations in many places including the American South where most of them supported the Confederacy and later segregation.
Jews were big parts of the Muslim slave trade. Muslims big raiding grounds were the Balkans, Crimea and the Mediterranean Sea. The men they put to work and the young women were made part of harems. Muslims raided as far north as Ireland and Iceland.
Define, big part. Maybe provide a link to any substitive historical article?
Mostly an anti-semitic trope. The Muslims basically were (still are)the super entrepreneurs of slavery. blame another thing on the Jews
I wrote that Jews were big parts of the trade but not the majority. And the people who did the actual capturing of the slaves were all Muslims. The Jews did none of this.
Some Jews were involved yes. Like I said mostly..
In Islam the act of castration is considered a sin and strictly forbidden. For example during the Ottoman Empire Jews from Istanbul would buy Christian slaves from the Tatars of Crimea and blacks from Sudan, would castrate them to turn them into eunuchs and then would sell them to harem owners.
does Islam consider murder and rape to be forbidden? asking for no reason at all
Muslims were not allowed to set shop in Prague and export slav slaves to muslim Spain. That's what Ashkenazi jews did.
So let me get this straight jewe were the most responsible for the civil rights act and helping out blacks in the 1960s but blacks hate them because some Jews were involved in the slave trade in the 1600s? Even though they had absolutely nothing to do with the African slave trade in the US?
I called BS on this theory.
Jews were part of the US slave trade and plantation economy until the Civil War. Southern jews supported the Confederacy and segregation.
Why would blacks be grateful to them?
It's an intersemitic trope. "Do you know how many Jews were living in the south at the time of the civil war? More than a few 100? Didn't everyone that live in the south support the Confederacy? No the reality is that blacks are very racist in general, forgive me this is black and white based on surveys.
It doesn't help that the story of the Jews basically negates every single excuse blacks can have for not succeeding post hardship.
Blacks and Jews have a love-hate relationship. Most blacks hate Jews. Most Jews love blacks. It is weird.
Blacks hate everybody.
A middle-eastern muslim cabbie put it to me exactly that way in '05. I asked him and his colleagues what they thought of american blacks. The first guy said, "there's something wrong with those people," and the next one said, "they hate everyone but their own group."
This is precisely accurate. The ADL has been running a survey since the 1960s and close to half of American blacks espouse anti-Semitic views when questioned by a polster. Used to be able to find it on the ADL website of course not that they're woke I can't seem to find it anymore
I just got that vibe from working in Washington DC for forty years. Blacks can't stand Jews. In 1968, during the Martin Luther King riots, the blacks rioted first in the heavily Jewish businesses along 14th Street and plundered them.
The scene in "Annie Hall" with his parents arguing about whether they should fire the maid for stealing is a perfect summary of that generation's often contradictory feelings about blacks. My parents generation was driven from the city, entire neighborhoods of childhood friends reassembling in the 'burbs. My grandparents had a Schvartze cleaning lady. My parents switched to Poles.
My friends grew up with almost no exposure to blacks and remained confident that any problems in the black community must be the fault of whites and would soon go away with vigorous civil rights enforcement.
My impression is they quietly gave up on that in the late 1990s and switched to hispanics and gays. Much more rewarding.
This has been building for decades though. As another comment points out the love-hate relationship between Jews and blacks has always been Jews loving blacks and blacks hating Jews. Up until 2020, Jews thought they could control this, pay off the right black politicians and leaders and they would get in line. Some of them appear to figuring out that isn't going to work with this next generation. They really hate Jews and aren't going to take bribes to keep the rage contained.
Like Candace Owens. Blacks don’t like feeling beholden to anyone and Jews want you to be grateful to them.
Can whites blame Jews then for supporting anti-white rhetoric and movements or is that anti-Semitic? I remember when Elon Musk mentioned the Jewish presence in wokeness and the uproar was immediate.
You can do that, but realize you also have lots of Jews pushing back on the right as well, and also you need to be fair once you understand that Jewish support for the left has a history if you see my other comment.
As I jew I do blame leftist Jews for a lot of our (Also Jewish )problems yes, but with context.
Ultimately if one were to study the two phenomena "antisemitism" versus "Jewish leftism" you will see one as more pervasive and salient than the other.
Another point that I see Steve's making is that there's nothing stopping gentiles from donating more money to causes they believe in, it's just that they haven't done it all that much.
“Banjaxed” would be a good word to describe Democratic feelings on learning that the huddled masses prefer President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho to President Maya Rudolph.
"Under my system, for instance, Jews get both credit for Einstein and blame for Marx."
Hey! Everyone knows Groucho cancels out Karl!
I would assume a lot of the Jewish donors who stayed away or reduced donations to the Dems will 'come home' in the next cycle. Outrage about Oct 7th will have cooled a lot and although there are quite a few antisemitic actors in the activist wing of the party, it's likely they will be mostly sidelined as the party and institutions (like universities) that benefit from Jewish donor largesse deprive them of oxygen in response to tepid or totally withdrawn financial support.
Looking further out is the question of the political disposition of younger Jews in pursuits like academia, media, and business. It appears that young men of all stripes are moving to the right, and if this is sustained and applicable to younger Jewish men (and it appears to me to be so) then as we see Generation Z members move into positions of power, wealth and influence in the 2030s and 2040s there could be really big changes.
I agree with you but for different reasons. I say this as three generations of Jewish American conservative. The left has ignited anti-Semitism in this country by siding with the islamists- which is a huge problem for Israel. But here in the US there's a possibility that right wing anti semitism becomes a bigger hindrance to daily life for Jews at some point. I don't think we're there yet.
This is a little extreme example but,
I can analyze the rise of Nazism in Germany as a reaction to communism and therefore ultimately blame the left for fascism.
Again we are not there yet but to the extent it happens here to some degree, those of us that were paying attention will know who to blame in the big picture, but only as an academic memory.
Thanks for the response. I personally don’t see the right becoming more antisemitic based on my personal circle, but obviously that’s specific to where I live and work, which is in the Midwest. Jews and Catholics here do have their own miniature social circles but broadly speaking are stereotypically Midwestern culturally so people’s affinity groupings tend to follow schools or sports way more than religion. The majority of my male Jewish friends are conservatives, although the wives are usually AWFLs unless they are not Jewish themselves.
Jews going so hard Democrat and supporting civil rights for minorities and sticking to that politically is actually not that irrational historically speaking. People forget that the hatred for Jews was so endemic worldwide at the time of the Holocaust and up to the civil rights era-and even then it only took a breather for a couple decades in the US while still persisting in many parts of the world.
The easiest way to get people to stop hating Jews is not to say hey hating Jews is bad-please stop it- it's easier to say hey nobody should hate anyone not even the blacks.
It turns out that even this approach is unsustainable. I was in Holocaust museum a few years ago and walking through the exhibit that was highlighting how no one helped the Jews in the 30s and 40s The people behind me saying hey that's just like what's happening to the Palestinians today. Horseshoe theory of empathy.
It turns out maybe the only long term solution to Jews hatred (from the Jewish point of
view) is Israeli nukes. The final solution if you will.
'I assign ethnicity based on family background rather than on the personal matter of current degree of faith. Under my system, for instance, Jews get both credit for Einstein and blame for Marx.'
I think this is not very well-reasoned. At least for the period 1800-1950, cultural-ethnic identification is important in addition to (and perhaps more than) racial and religious Judaism. As an objective fact, Marx was not culturally Jewish, and did not ethnically affiliate as Jewish in any way. If Marx was a political donor in America today, it wouldn't tell you anything at all about Jewish influence on politics. As far as I know, even Marx's most fierce opponents at the time did not consider his 'Jewishness' relevant or important. This was something retrojected back after the rise of Jewish communism at the end of the century. Einstein, by contrast, was Jewish enough that he got offered the job of President of Israel.
On the other hand, I don't know really know what it means to give Jews the credit (or the blame...) for the Theory of Relativity. I think Einstein's non-sciency ideas can be analysed profitably in terms of his Jewish identity, though. in truth, they weren't very interesting.
It took several decades for Southern Democrat Whites to become Republican voters. People could see it back in 1964, but it didn't break the surface then. I don't think the Democrats can reorient themselves to become attractive to Jewish donors again. However, the donors won't be able to extricate themselves out of the networks that they created. There are too many personal connections that one would leave behind. Besides, a lot of donors think they can make a difference, which they can't. So it will be a very gradual attrition.
Wow! First of all, people are giving too much money to political campaigns. Maybe more later.
It’s not relevant to the article’s thesis, but I do want to add the caveat that the top 100 donors actually compose a relatively modest fraction of each party’s funding. According to this Barron’s article, it’s generally in the 10-15% range: https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-harris-election-campaign-billionaires-megadonors-6cf28b0c?utm_source=chatgpt.com
The relevance being that low-IQ anti-Semites like to say things like “66.6% of the top 100 donors are JEWISH, so 66.6% of the funding of the political parties is JEWISH!” It sounds slightly less menacing to say “approximately 5% of the overall funding for political candidates comes from Jewish mega-donors.”(It’s comparable to how they describe companies with Jewish CEOs as controlled by Jews, as if a CEO doesn’t serve at the pleasure of a company’s shareholders.)