I think there are a lot of people like him who didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 and will do so in 2020. Trump is rude and crude but he has governed like a conservative Republican, indeed, the most conservative since Reagan. Additionally politics is the art of comparison. The Democrat party has lurched to the Far Left, and Leftists would govern, rather than the sad, demented shell who used to be Joe Biden. Perhaps he is also recalling these words of Prime Minister Menahem Begin to Joe Biden when Biden threatened that the Senate could cut off aid to Israel in 1982:
Fortunately for Israel, Reagan, a firm friend of Israel, was President and not blow hard Biden.
Shapiro gets it from both sides. Trump voters are often angered by his criticisms of Trump; liberals hate his criticisms of them. I was disappointed when he did not vote for Trump in 2016 and yet I understood the reasons why. I think Shapiro was also unduly concerned about alt-right anti-Semites in 2016; it is understandable that a Jewish man would be sensitive to such things. the Trump was not my first choice either and I am still not enamored of his speaking style or his personal life. But I have stopped paying attention to what he says and how he says it and I focus on what he has done.
Shapiro is an honest man, even if I don’t always agree with him.
I don’t mind Trump’s speaking style so much. It is a typical NYC style. Beats Obama’s pompous monotone, Biden’s gibberish (although somewhat entertaining), and Bush II’s that I can’t really describe well (kind of like short 3 round bursts with odd pauses). To be fair, the bar has been set pretty low the past several cycles. Love him or hate him, Ted Cruz probably has had the best, with a quasi-Baptist preacher cadence to it last time I heard him.
Seems threatening to withhold aid is an old ploy of Biden’s. At least in ’62, I assume he threatened it for some political reason rather than to protect his own personal gain. I could be wrong.
I think you mean 1982. In 1962, Biden was a sophomore at the University of Delaware. Menachem Begin was an important MP in Israel, but he’d never held cabinet position.
Thanks for catching that Art. Corrected.