Discussion on Liberal Values and Jewish Safety

Well, the second thing is Jews, I think,

have only really thrived and are only really safe

when liberal values are the dominant prevalent values.

Trump administration represents a substantial and dangerous regression from those values.

I think the comments,

the attitude of this administration towards immigration,

Mexican immigration, Latin American immigration, is a scandal.

To be anti-immigrant strikes me as antithetical to the liberal values

that have been so good for us as Jews.

This turn away from liberalism, and it's not just with respect to immigrants,

it's with respect to attitude toward the media, it's with the coarsening and the assault on fundamental institutions of government,

is in the long term, I believe,

dangerous for the Jews, because

I am hard-pressed to think of illiberal orders

in the past that haven't eventually turned on the Jews,

and I'm hard-pressed to think of populist orders

in the past that haven't eventually turned on the Jews.