Two Novembers ago, 30 percent of Jewish voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump. I’d love to know what they’re thinking now.

Could it be, perchance, that dining with two vocally notorious antisemites has finally – finally – prompted some Jewish MAGA-lovers to wake up to reality and scrape Trump off their shoes? I’ve always wondered what it would take, after six long years of the serial liar’s racist sexist demagoguery and dog whistles to home-grown Jew haters.

Well, lo and behold, prominent figures in the GOP Jewish community are actually speaking out against the party’s titular leader. Amazing! I had come to believe that all four Beatles would reunite before such a thing would happen.

Here’s Morton Klein, who runs the conservative Zionist Organization of America: “I am a child of survivors. I have become very frightened for my people. Donald Trump is not an antisemite. He loves Israel. He loves Jews. But he mainstreams, he legitimizes Jew hatred and Jew haters. And this scares me.”

Here’s Jay Lefkowitz, an ex-adviser to George W. Bush and supporter of various MAGA policies: Trump’s behavior has “gone beyond any of the reasonably acceptable and justifiable norms.”

Here’s Rabbi Moshe Hauer, executive veep of the Orthodox Union, which speaks for the most pro-Trump branch of the faith: “The level of antisemitism being expressed, antisemitic acts at a very elevated level, and the acceptability of antisemitism – it is all creating an environment which is, thank God, unusual for the United States, and it has to be nipped in the bud. That’s it. That’s the moment we’re in.”

Here’s Ben Shapiro, a Jewish conservative commentator: “A good way not to accidentally dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you don’t know (Nick Fuentes) is not to dine with a vile racist and anti-Semite you do know (Kanye West).”

Here’s Ronald Lauder, a prominent Jewish MAGA fundraiser: “Nick Fuentes is a virulent antisemite and Holocaust denier, plain and simple. It is inconceivable that anyone would associate with him.”

Even the Republican Jewish Coalition – a group that has long sought to convince Jewish Democratic voters to switch parties – has managed to rouse itself: “We strongly condemn the virulent antisemitism of Kanye West and Nick Fuentes and call on all political leaders to reject their messages of hate and refuse to meet with them.” The RJC couldn’t quite bring itself to assail Trump by name, but after taking heat for that omission, director Matt Brooks tried to cover his butt with a snarky tweet: “We didn’t mention Trump in our statement even though it’s obviously in response to his meeting because we wanted it to be a warning to ALL Republicans. Duh!”

I’ll go out on a limb and predict that Trump’s Dinnergate will further foil the RJC’s mission of crafting a Jewish voting majority for the GOP. Duh!

Republicans have been nurturing that dream for decades. In 1992, they predicted “an incremental shift” among Jews toward the GOP – but George H.W. Bush got only 11 percent of those votes. In 1996, Republicans said that Jews would desert Bill Clinton, that the GOP had “opportunities for realignment” – but Bob Dole got only 16 percent. In 2000, they said that George W. was “the perfect model of who the Jewish community is looking for” – but he got only 19 percent. In 2004, they predicted “a major shift in (Jewish) party alliances” – but Bush got only 22 percent. In 2008, they said Jews would never get comfortable with Barack Obama – but Republican John McCain got only 21 percent. And so on. Trump’s 30 percent in 2020 was actually the highest in years, matching Mitt Romney’s total in 2012.

If Trump crashes during the next two years (a likely scenario if he’s indicted), and gets supplanted by candidates who shy away from dining with bigots, rest assured that Jewish Republicans will stay loyal to the party – if only because they like the GOP’s hawkish support of Israel. But a landslide majority of Jews will still vote blue. Broadly speaking, they care fiercely about the safety net, the separation of church and state, and the welfare of the underdog. They are politically liberal and socially tolerant. Most Jews will never flock to a party that wants to slash government programs, inject more religiosity in public life, and protect the rich at the expense of those in the lower brackets. Most Jews, given their history, instinctively support society’s underdogs. 

And they surely found it laughable the other day when David Friedman, who served as Trump’s ambassador to Israel, pleaded on Twitter for his old boss to disavow West and “human scum” Fuentes, because, in words, “To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this.”

Um, no he’s not.