If one were dead set on dividing President Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition at the seams, how would one proceed? Trying to drive a wedge through the immigration issue doesn’t necessarily make sense: Tightening and securing America’s borders is so core to the nationalist-populist MAGA project that there can be little room in the coalition for much dissent. Trying to divide MAGA along economic laissez-faire or populism lines is also doomed to fail: As important as pocketbook issues are to everyday Americans, the wonky details of fiscal policy generally don’t stoke fiery passion.
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One could do a lot worse, however, than focusing on Jews — and specifically, on the respective relationships between American Jews and American Christians and between the United States and
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