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The Tumbling of Trump: An American Defeat

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He’s finally lost me.

Two years ago, I wrote a column called “Confession: Hamas Made Me Vote for Trump,” explaining why I considered his support for Israel strong enough to warrant my backing. Its gist: that Trump’s staunch opposition to the Iranian-financed genocidal attacks on the Jewish State would probably thwart them.

My emersion from the closet on that issue extracted some heavy costs. Primary among them: the complete rejection, renunciation, and excommunication by my own brother, a doctrinaire leftist whose Trump Derangement Syndrome far outweighs his reason or affection.

I still believe Trump was a far better choice than the alternative. But I have to admit that the now-President’s latest and increasingly shaky “peace” negotiations with Iran have left me cold. “Finally!” I began a column back in March after the latest war commenced. The US/Israeli attack on Iran, I declared, “marked the belated fulfillment of a wondrous promise…that the world might finally be liberated from a potentially lethal threat of historic........

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