But increasingly, that loyalty
is also based on a fear of extrem-
ism, and specifically of the reli-
gious extremism that seems to
exert an ever-stronger pull on the
Republican party.
A noted Jewish neoconserva-
tive put it to me this way last
year. "Today, the political values
of many Jews are closer to the
values of the Republican party,"
he said. "But Jewish emancipa-
tion was made by liberals, not by
conservatives — and not by
Christians, but by secularists. As
a result, Jews have always felt
more comfortable with secular-
ists and liberals, which is per-
fectly understandable."
So Jews may be increasingly
attracted to the idea of fiscal con-
servatism, and maybe even to
some of the social theories favored
by House Speaker Newt Gin-
grich, R-Ga. But they are unlikely
to bolt from the Democrats be-
cause of their fear of Pat Robert-
son and the even more far-out
Evangelical leaders who have
found an inviting home in the
GOP.
Similarly, many Jews share
the view that business is over-
regulated, and that economic
growth is stifled by too-high tax-
es. But few are willing to endorse
the laissez-faire extremism of
some of the new GOP congres-
sional upstarts. As people with a
stronger-than-average apprecia-
tion of history, Jews remember
too well what happened the last
time the nation gave in to that
kind of ideology.
All of that is good news for the
Democrats, but it could be bad
news for a Jewish community
that may be increasingly irrele-
vant in the nation's political cal-
culus.
The Democrats can afford to
largely ignore a Jewish commu-
nity unlikely to pick up its votes
and run to the GOP. Undecided
votes are power; when a group's
votes are pretty much guaran-
teed, clout inevitably declines.
More importantly, there is a
kind of political estrangement
taking place as Jews see a
Democratic party that often
seems to promote positions that
are no longer consensus positions
for the Jewish community — but
who feel that they can't join the
Republicans because of the reli-
gious and ideological extremists
who wield so much power in the
party's inner sanctums.
Jews are middle-of-the-road
voters; increasingly, there is no
middle of the road in the Repub-
lican party, which Sen. Specter
learned after a grueling 10-month
campaign that produced almost
no tangible results.
In 1995, many Jewish voters
feel bound to the Democrats not
by ideology, but by fear — a spe-
cial kind of political disenfran-
chisement that is likely to grow
as the nation becomes more po-
larized.

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