MAGA Without the Jews

As we head into the meat of the 2026 midterm election season, things are looking dicey for the Republicans. The news is grim: Trump’s approval rating is at a low point of 36%; among the youth, ages 18–29, it is between 25% and 29%; and “A Third of GOP Voters May Sit Out” if Republicans abandon their usual pro-life policies.  And all this before Iran.

The Israel-Palestine conflict is of notable concern for the GOP.  While they are only 2 percentage points “under water” on this issue among all voters—49% disapprove versus 47% approve—they are in severe trouble with the youth.  It was recently reported that only 29% of American youth side with Israel, and even among Republicans, 41% are more sympathetic to the Palestinian side.

Even Christian fundamentalists are turning against Trump.  Even if they are implicit (or explicit) Christian Zionists, most of them are still, at the same time, “America Firsters.”  It is possible to be both, and yet still put America ahead of Israel or Jewish interests generally—something like “America First, Israel Second.”  This is possible for many.  But not for Trump.  One recent commentator remarked that “the most destructive flaw that has spoiled Trump’s image with his [fundamentalist] base is his unconditional support of Israel’s war on the Palestinian people.”  This slaughter of Gazans, and the simultaneous assault on many Christians and Christian churches, has been ongoing for more than two years now.  Trump’s base “has rightly recognized that Trump is not ‘America First’ but ‘Israel First’.”

And now, of course, with the new war on Iran, what was clear to many is now clear to all:  Trump is an utter stooge, a tool of the Jews and Israelis, and is willing to kill any number of Muslims or Americans to further Jewish/Israeli interests.  This lunatic action against Iran is highly unpopular all across the American political spectrum; in a new poll, just 27% of Americans approved of the attack.  As fuel prices rise and the American death toll creeps upward, we can expect that low level of support to fall even lower.

I would also add here, as an aside, that this criminal action against Iran has wide support in Israel itself.  Despite the many internal disagreements and the broad dislike of Netanyahu, Israeli Jews are almost united in the unprovoked bombing campaign.  A recent headline in the Guardian stated that Israel is “embracing militarism” and that Netanyahu’s war “has few critics” there.  The attack, they add, “was greeted with broad and enthusiastic support…including [Netanyahu’s] bitter rivals.”  Nearly all Israeli Jews, it seems, are happy to unleash an unprecedented assault on a neighboring nation and to kill off its top leadership.  I have yet to see surveys of American Jews, but I would presume a similar widespread acceptance.  So, to those faint-hearted critics who fear blaming “all Jews” for Israel’s murderous belligerence, well, I think we can dismiss such worries from now on.  Yes, my friends, it is, more or less “all Jews” who support these criminal actions; consequently, “all Jews” will have to pay a price.

Worse than Trump being a Jewish stooge is the fact that virtually the entire Congress is beholden to Jewish interests.  We have long known that Republicans get around 25% of all campaign funding from Jewish sources, and Democrats around 50%.  This ensures that Democrats will offer only the meekest of resistance to Trump’s blatantly illegal and monstrously unethical attack on Iran.  They will do nothing of substance because, in the end, their Jewish sponsors like this war, and in fact have been pushing for it for years.  Any Congressman who speaks too harshly against Trump’s crimes against humanity will surely lose his Jewish financial support and face a stiff, well-funded opponent in the next primary.  US Congress: bought, sold, and paid for by the Jewish Lobby.  How’s that working, America?

An Obvious Solution

Trump’s popularity, such as it was, came from those who liked his professed policies:  America First, closed borders, tough on crime (especially immigrant crime), fiscal restraint, ending DEI and absurd politically-correct policies, getting tough with NATO, ending foreign entanglements, and, especially, “no new wars.”  In reality, we got a few tidbits on some of these, but mostly we got dumped on.  We got war on Venezuela, war on Palestine, war on Iran, ongoing proxy war against Russia, and economic war against the whole world.  We got ballooning government spending and concomitant debt: a $1.5 trillion defense budget, and a $2 trillion annual budget deficit, pushing total government debt to $38 trillion.  But hey, the Jews are happy, and that’s all that matters.

If we continue on this track, Republicans will likely get crushed in the midterm elections, when all 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats are on the ballot.  Even with the radical Republican redistricting, if GOP voters are unhappy or unenthusiastic and simply sit it out, Democrats will make substantial gains.  They will spin this victory as a repudiation of all of Trump’s policies, even the good ones, and they will therefore push for a return to “the good ol’ days” of Obama and Biden.  But that would be bad news on multiple fronts.

So, what to do?

All this begs an obvious solution: “MAGA without the Jew.”  In other words, why can’t we have candidates who support all the good things Trumps stood for, without the suicidal attachment to Israel and the Jewish Lobby?  Why can’t we have a Republican candidate—not Black, not Muslim, not Jewish, just White—who endorses (a) strong borders, (b) tough on illegal immigrants, (c) an end to DEI, (d) fiscal conservatism, (e) ending all ongoing wars, and generally, (f) America First?  And that’s it!  Isn’t that good enough to win a crushing victory?

This new movement—call it MAGAWJ—would also take an open and explicit stance: no Jewish campaign funding, no aid to Israel, no wars for the Jews.  After all, perhaps 2% of the American population are Jews, so we clearly have no democratic need to bow down to them, especially when the interests of the other 98% run in the opposite direction.

A good MAGAWJ candidate would continue Trump’s policy on closed borders and would accelerate the removal of illegals.  Simple and obvious actions like (1) strictly enforcing laws against hiring illegals, and (2) making it a serious crime to house an illegal, would have an immediate effect.  Just these two actions would drive thousands of illegals out of the country without having to arrest and detain them.

Our ideal candidate would implement a plan to close down most of America’s 800 or so foreign bases while, at the same time, slashing the military budget in half.  Yes, in half.  Even then, we would still be spending 50% more than the world number two, China.  We would still have the world’s top military, by far.  But we could save $500 billion dollars per year while simultaneously making it much harder for any future presidential tyrant to try to rule the world.

In the present political climate, MAGAWJ is a recipe for certain victory.  The typical Trump voters would jump on board without hesitation, and a large share of independents would happily vote for it.  Even many nominal Democrats, those who consider themselves liberal but are tired of working on behalf of Jewish interests—especially young voters—would switch their votes.  It would be a Republican landslide; it would set the stage for long-term Republican success, long-term national success, and long-term world peace (if we care about that).

MAGAWJ candidates:  We are waiting for you!

Thomas Dalton, PhD, has authored or edited several books and articles on politics, history, and the Jewish Question. All his works are available at www.clemensandblair.com, and at his personal website www.thomasdaltonphd.com.