All right, I'm back with Pottia Ungar Sargon. Welcome back to Walkins. Welcome. Thank you for being here.

Thank you so much for having me. You've got another book. It's an ominous cover. Just going to say, ominous cover. We got it. We were like, wow, that's a scary looking cover.

That's the tone of the book.

I don't know.

I feel like the tone is very upbeat, no?

Is it?

Why did you decide to write this book?

Okay. There were two reasons.

The first is one of the questions I get asked the most by non-Jewish people when I travel is like, and if it's like a conservative or Republican or Christian person, they'll look at me with like real pain in their eyes and like take my hands and be like, but why are the Jews Democrats?

Yeah.

Because they have this feeling that like they are totally on the side of the Jews and the left is totally turned on the Jews and yet yet the Jews remain on the left, and they don't

understand it.

And it's so funny because a big part of this book is how much Americans hate anti-Semitism,

like how protective they are of their Jewish neighbors.

And so these people who like really hate Democrats, it's almost like they have a

carve out for Jewish Democrats, right? Like they would never say with pain in their eyes about any

other Democrat, like, but why are they a Democrat? It makes sense. Like they suck and that's why

they're Democrats, you know? Right. But with the Jews, like, it really bothers them. They really

want to understand it.

So A, I wrote the book to explain that.

And B, I think there's a lot of Jews who are very confused about why the left, which they saw as their political home for so long turned on them.

And then also, I just wanted to, a big part of American Jewish history has been like totally

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