. Democrats, Try to Avoid This One Self-Inflicted Wound in 2020

. As Democrats go about trying to choose the best candidate to confront Donald Trump in what may be our last chance to stop the destruction of the political system of the United States, it would be nice if Democrats avoid needlessly alienating one of its most loyal constituencies — American Jews. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Peter Buttigieg have taken positions which, in other years, might have had American Jews just whistle past the graveyard, hold their noses and vote Democratic from the top of the ticket to the bottom.