This Isn't Nothing
n the wake of the Democrat convention, Alan Dershowitz, the most prominent living Jew, announced ( here and here ), specificially at the second link, "I am no longer a Democrat. I am an Independent." Also in ther wake of the convention, Bobby Kennedy Jr, the most prominent living Kennedy and namesake of his martyred father, endorsed a Republican candidate for president and reiterated his previous departure from the Democrats. “The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars,” he went on. “We were the party of labor, of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the full world against big money interests and corporate power. True to its name, it was the party of democracy.” As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become ...