Jamie Raskin's Trump Obsession Trumps Antisemitism

Let's be honest: Jamie Raskin is a smart guy. He's a constitutional scholar, a former professor, and he genuinely cares about democratic norms. But when it comes to Donald Trump, his intellectual rigor seems to evaporate. The RealClearPolitics piece nails a frustrating truth—Raskin and his colleagues can see the spike in antisemitism, they can even hold hearings on it, but they simply cannot bring themselves to admit that Trump actually did something about it. The executive orders targeting campus antisemitism were real. They were decisive. And they were effective in forcing universities to take action. Now, I'm not here to defend Trump's overall record on race or his rhetoric, which has often been divisive. But this is the core problem with our political moment: we've become so tribal that we refuse to give credit where it's due, even when the issue is one we claim to care about. If a Democrat had signed those orders, Raskin would be praising them as a moral imperative. Instead, because Trump's name is on them, they're either ignored or twisted into a cynical ploy. That's not principled opposition; that's just partisan blindness. This isn't just a Raskin problem, though. It's a systemic disease. Both parties do it. Republicans refuse to credit Democrats for infrastructure or veterans' care. Democrats refuse to credit Republicans for criminal justice reform or, in this case, combating antisemitism. And what happens? The issue gets weaponized, the voters lose faith in government, and the actual problem—in this case, Jewish students feeling unsafe on campus—gets lost in the shuffle. If Raskin truly wanted to fight antisemitism, he'd stand up and say