In a Jewish Insider article about Republican donors either resigned to Trump becoming the party’s 2024 nominee or still foolishly hoping another candidate will knock him off in the primary is one hell of an interesting insight from Republican Jewish Coalition board member Eric Levine.
“Donald Trump gave us wokeism. Donald Trump gave us the progressives. Donald Trump gave us Joe Biden. His losing the Senate intentionally gave the country to the progressives. And then, of course, January 6 speaks for itself,” said Levine, who voted for Trump in 2020 but claims he never will again. It’s not the first time that we’ve seen this line of thought, as the Atlantic’s Anne Appelbaum (not a right-winger) before the 2020 election warned conservatives that if Trump won “a second term, leftist extremism will not be stopped. It will not grow quieter. Instead, extremism will spread, mutate into new forms, and gradually become entrenched in more areas of American life.”
Levine’s definitely overstating it. Trump didn’t create “wokeism” or progressives. He did however ignite a fiery opposition to him and his movement that is frightening enough to a major GOP donor that he’ll go on the record and admit what other Republicans don’t want to say: That Trump more than anyone else alone is to blame for accelerating cultural progress and nominating him again is going to fire up an even louder, angrier, opposition to him than in 2020.