A note of gratitude from a Jewish never-Trumper

I didn’t vote for you. I protested you. I laughed at your spelling, cried at your cruelty, and screamed into the void when you “truth’d” about disinfectant cures. I watched you hug flags, butcher Bible verses, and sell Trump Bibles, and confuse Iran with Iraq with a map upside-down. I am, proudly, a card-carrying member of the “Never Trump” tribe — mezuzah on the door, and more than a dozen op-eds about why you were dangerous.

But today, I write with a rare and uncomfortable feeling: gratitude.

Because, despite your vanity, your Twitter tantrums, your golf obsession, and your strange love letters to dictators, you bombed Iran.

And not for ratings (not sure). Not for oil (we hope). Not even because Mark Levin told you to (okay, maybe a little). But because, at the eleventh hour, with pressure from every direction, you did what needed to be done.

You saw a threat. You recognized the moment. You made the call.

You bombed the regime that funds terror from Damascus to Gaza, from Hezbollah tunnels to Houthi drones. You struck the architects of death who chant “Death to America” while building centrifuges and exporting explosives. You did what others only warned about. You sent a message — not in Hebrew, not in Arabic, but in the universal language of action: “Not on our watch.”

And yes, I think about escalation. I fear what comes next. But for one surreal moment, I watched as the world’s most unpredictable man did the most predictable, necessary thing: he defended Israel, the West, and the principle that tyrants don’t get to act without consequence.

So thank you, Mr. Trump.

You’re still the man who cozied up to racists, sabotaged democracy, and made a mockery of decency. I still oppose almost everything you stand for. But even a bleached blonde broken clock can be right once in a while.

And today, from one very stubborn Jewish never-Trumper: you were right.

Let the record show that for one moment, amidst the chaos and the narcissism, you bombed the right bad guys.

Just… please don’t sing and do the ridiculous Trump dance about it at your next rally. Do me a personal favor (I may write another word of praise for you if you do), please make Tucker Carlson the US Ambassador to Tehran.

Thanks,
Paul Mendlowitz aka The Unorthodox Jew

PS: Now, back to fighting you on everything else.

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