I'm John Bachelors who at Victor Davis-Hanson and the Hoover Institution

writing most recently at mythology's and demythologizing mythologies assumptions here to four and we come to the one about

where is the Democratic base. Victor it is a puzzle to me that the president of the United States is concerned we're told again and

again about a voting constituency in the state of Michigan. I understand it's a swing

state, but the state of Michigan, Michigan associated with the great success of the 20th century, the automotive industry.

And in the state of Michigan, there are young people who chant death to America.

I've heard it.

It's been recorded. What about that concerns the

president that he's he wonders how they're going to vote and he nods to them

when he makes remarks? Death to America, Victor? Yes, that doesn't bother

him, John. What his calculus is, we need Michigan to win the election and we lost it in 2016 and we barely won at

2020. So we're really worried about the auto workers because we've gone onto the EV mandate and that can shut down the auto industry. It's a disastrous decision to mandate electric vehicles over gasoline powered vehicles. So they're vulnerable there. So they have decided

that people in Dearborn in that area that are Muslims or Arabs, they're going

to pander to and overlook death to America or death to Israel, any of that.

And they've made another calculus that in leaning so far to the anti-Israel pro-Homass crowd,

that their traditional Jewish voter, both as a donor and a voter, and it's much

grighter.

It's not just 250,000 voters in a particular state, it's 3 to 4 million, but they feel they're concentrated in

Illinois, New York, maybe Washington, Virginia, and Los Angeles. And these are mostly blue states.

And so they, even if they did defect,

they would not affect the Electoral College.

So they have made a decision that the Jewish American voter will stay with us and to the extent any

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