(((Jeffrey Goldberg)))

Jeffrey (not Jonah, of the National Review) is perhaps best known for recently attempting to summarize the president's across-the-board foreign policy choices in something called "the Obama Doctrine" in the Atlantic, a magazine most younger mainstream readers are not familiar with, at least not outside the East Coast.

He is a propagandist:  giving as good as he gets, a journalist trading access to the president for glowing articles, like that about the Obama Doctrine.  Purely spin, but it pays off if he is able to convince Americans that politically their national security interests are safe in the hands of Democrats.

Clearly, he has his work cut out for him this year of political revolt.

Workers, soldiers, voters and youth have all weighed in to tell the Washington establishment -- and the media whose love sustains them -- enough.  Enough mindless wars, enough taking from the American people to line your own pockets, enough rigged games that make you think you are winning a championship, when more and more, our country loses stature.

The easy out, of course, would be to blame Donald Trump.  Foreign leaders won't know how to deal, if Donald is president, voters are told.  Be afraid, be very afraid!  Except, most Americans do not scare easy.

Still, on the East Coast, there is a whiff of desperation.  At first content to ridicule the huge numbers of supporters responsible for the Trump primary victories, the newest media memes include mockery and fear-mongering.

Jeffrey is responsible for the (((hugz))) online campaign, which he created, he says, to push back against all of the neo-Nazi's who are allegedly targeting Jewish journalists online, with the same symbolic imagery.  (In traditional Yankee Doodle fashion, he has thus tried to turn the tables on these alleged haters:  done "stuck a feather in his cap, and called it macaroni" to use an earlier example of successful re-branding):

A very small number of Twitter geeks and online pundits have thus included the parentheses around their names -- choosing to self-identify as Jewish writers, spouses or wannabe's -- in an attempt to claim the (((hugz))) back in a good way, I think. (read more here).

As I stated yesterday, I don't expect this online campaign to last any longer than the purple-finger pundits, or the green-avatar bloggers because true political revolutions are rarely sustained by gimmickry. (The Yankee Doodle tune, of course, being but an accessory to the fight, not the driving meme of the American Revolution...)

Jeffrey Goldberg fancies himself as somewhat of a foreign policy expert on all things Israel, and his writings reflect this.  As the American people have begun to question why our own national borders are not secure as the Iron Dome defense our taxes have contributed to building over there, the pundits have had to double-down

So while the killings this week in Tel Aviv are quite correctly condemned, it is no surprise that coverage all of the daily terror attacks worldwide have blended into a whole in many minds.  The numbers of lives lost is almost incalculable;  they compete for our sympathies in time and attention, with the refugee babies washing up on foreign shores a contrast today to the recent D-Day anniversary observations that more than half-a-century ago saw such deaths as soldiers' fare...

How does Washington then respond?

How can one simultaneously praise the president's performance, and accept such imagery? (Even the most hard-hearted cannot justify or ignore the innocents dying, especially when foreign media capture photos of the dead and drowned children, who look an awful lot like our own...)

We've come full circle then, from reporting to propagandizing.  And apparently Washington has decided to pump up the president's foreign policies -- ineffective, at best; dangerously misguided, if honestly analyzed.

Expect to see more of this, then, this summer.  The online campaigns, the tribal sorting, the attempts to paint the majority of independent Donald Trump voters as a danger to the world, and of course, to Jews like Jeffrey...

Without further ado, here is Mr. Goldberg's work in the Atlantic this week:

A Brief Introduction to Pro-Holocaust Twitter

Donald Trump has expressed no interest in opening up death camps for Jews should he win the presidency, but his ardent supporters on the racist right have their hopes.  

 Jeffrey Goldberg  Jun 8, 2016

If there’s one thing I hate more than Illinois Nazis, it’s Twitter Nazis.

Correction. I don’t hate them. Mainly I pity them, because their souls are so corroded, and because they are so pathetically frightened by Jews and blacks and Mexicans and gays and change ... and pluralism and, by the way, Hillary Clinton. 

But I also feel pity for them because they’re so bad at anti-Semitism. 

I recognize high-quality, handcrafted Jew-hatred when I see it, and the far-right, which has lately been gaining attention for supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy for president (and for trolling Jews such as yours truly), is so over-the-top obvious in its deployment of anti-Semitic memes; so uncreative in the manufacturing of Judeophobic tropes (call this the banality of oven jokes); so bad at Photoshop; and so awful at spelling, that I find them as pathetic as I find them offensive.

 When the physical attacks against Donald Trump supporters failed to shut down his rallies or stem his support, it apparently became preferable to try and label his supporters as haters.  But it appears, the numbers are there.

Americans who know nothing of "Jew hatred" or the "pathetic fright" of our fellow Americans that Jeffrey cites, would be surprised to learn that their desire to right a listing American ship is tied in to an organized neo-Nazi campaign to target writers like himself.

Perhaps this meme is taking hold on the East Coast, or in the dark-paneled boardrooms where presumably somebody still reads the Atlantic, but something tells me... he's whistling Dixie:  that media efforts to steer the upcoming campaign away from the real issues confronting our country and onto the shoals of hatred and fear of our fellow citizens will not take.

It's not that the summer season is too filled with life activities to take seriously the threats of any hate campaigns.  It's that too many of us intermingle now -- we know Trump supporters, we speak and listen to their concerns, we are Trump supporters -- that's it is easy to understand and dismiss characters like Meryl Streep, who want to play with presidential politics and craft their own performance-art pieces explaining what they see, through their artistic lenses...

A photo of Goldberg published in the Atlantic

 Goldberg is right to push back against hatred, of course, but one wonders if he is exaggerating the true level of personal threats to himself for being a Jewish writer, and is simply on the outs as a member of the Washington media in a time and place where American voters are rejecting such drama, and seeking -- via Trump -- a stabilizing presence within our own borders, here at home.

Hatred will not last, have no fear,

because good men everywhere will not be silenced by Photoshops, face paint or biased reporting that buries the facts to promote the fears.