After spending a lifetime as a Democrat, former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind has ditched the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party. The thought that the 73-year-old Hikind would ever abandon the Democratic Party would have been unthinkable before the emergence of The Squad and the party’s willingness to allow open anti-Semitism to go unchecked. The Democrats have not changed their opinion of Jews, they have just quit hiding their true feelings.
Hikind, the 73-year-old founder of Americans Against Antisemitism, was first elected to the NYS Assembly in 1982. He later became the majority whip. He last ran for office in 2014 in which he won by a landslide. Hikind posted a video on his social media account that featured himself and his wife, Shani. He reported that not only had he been a lifetime Democrat, his parents were as well.
Hikind announced Thursday:
“But that’s over. That’s finished. I have decided to register as a Republican.”
“The Democratic party is dead. The radical Progressives are in full control. Its time to jump Ship. @POTUS you are responsible.”
The Democrats have gotten bolder since they discovered they do not need voters to win an election. How else can you explain Joe Biden allegedly getting 81 million votes?
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELHikind made his announcement within days of nine House Democrats voting against a resolution expressing America’s support for Israel; the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus having to apologize after calling Israel “a racist state”; and numerous Democrats refusing to attend Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s speech to Congress.
Hikind said:
“Unfortunately, the Democratic Party has become so radicalized, so radical, run by the radicals, that people who are moderates or conservative Democrats are not welcomed in the Democratic Party. And I’ve had enough.”
The Orthodox Jewish activist underscored that the Democratic Party “turns its back on its friends, like Israel,” noting that this has been further evidenced by the Biden administration’s policies.
WIBC reported that Hikind previously endorsed former President Donald Trump in 2020 on account of his work supporting Jews and Israel.
For instance, Trump signed a proclamation in 2017, ordering the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Shani Hikind noted in the video that she was “totally convinced that this is the right move for you, for me, for my friends, all of us who feel that the Democratic Party no longer represents our interests, what we stand for, our values. … This is not a party that represents our values, what we believe, how we feel about America, its history.”
IT’S OFFICIAL: My wife and I have switched our party affiliation from Democrat to Republican!
Ppl have long been asking, “Dov, when are you gonna leave the Democratic Party?”
Well, the time has come bc the Dems have turned their back on Jews & Israel, so it’s officially done! pic.twitter.com/VAlGaaALDO
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) July 20, 2023
TheBlaze reported last week that Georgia state Rep. Mesha Mainor announced she was switching parties and becoming a Republican.
Mainor said, “I represent a blue district in the city of Atlanta so this wasn’t a political decision for me. It was a MORAL one. I will NEVER apologize for being a black woman with a mind of my own.”
She has since been barraged by vicious, racially charged vitriol and hate-filled messages.
