Many of your loyal voters are angry. They’ve seen their neighborhoods burn, and they want to know what went wrong, even if it means that their own team screwed up.
Sooner or later, Angelinos will demand answers. They will want to know why, despite years of warnings, our city was not better prepared.
The thousands of Jew haters and useful idiots that have marched like hysterical robots spewing primal melodies around choice lyrics like “globalize the intifada” may be a lot of things. Stupid, boring, insufferable — yes. Cool — certainly not.
If the eternal Jewish will to survive revolves around our ability to learn and grow from our blunders and tragedies, the past year lives in that spirit.
I’ve come closer to those who believe that the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion was so singularly shattering and threatening to Israel’s survival, it required an equally shattering statement to deter Israel’s enemies.
The trend has accelerated in recent years as we’ve become more sensitive to any “microaggressions” that might offend cultural sensibilities.
The problem with “owning the culture” is that you’re no longer the counterculture. As painful as this is for Democrats to hear, it is conservatives today who represent the counterculture.
Whether they realized it or not, the Jewish Educator Awards were demonstrating an antidote to antisemitism.
America has admired Jews for so long because we are the ultimate contributors. As we continue our fight against hate, it behooves us to keep that upbeat aspect of the Jewish story alive.
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