Who hasn't heard the fairy tale of the “power of US Jews” at posh invitations or in the pub around the corner?
Even Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt with absolute integrity succumbed to this prejudice.
In 1970, Chancellor Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik met with severe criticism from US Jews.
The Chancellor, however, saw Jewish ghosts: The “top” of the American-Jewish “establishment” consists “of large entrepreneurs ... From the outset, therefore, one mistrusts a socialist government” like himself.
What is overlooked then as now: the overwhelming majority of US Jews from the early 20th century to today are left-wing liberal or (in the European sense) social democratic. This is documented once again by the election on November 3, 2020.