You do know who the enemy is that is supposedly waging the War on Christmas, right?
The author discusses his experience as Jewish families like his moved into a Detroit suburb in the 1970s-80s and the local public schools began to cut down on their previously omnipresent Christmas celebrations, to the dismay of longer-term residents, some of whom formed reactionary movements to oppose this de-secularization. One such group, TORCH (Taxpayers Organized to Restore Our Cultural Heritage), was led by Ronna Romney, then married to Mitt Romney's older brother (and the mother of Ronna (Romney) McDaniel, the current chair of the Republican National Committee, who dropped the Romney from her name to appease Donald Trump). As he has aged, the author has developed some sympathy for the feelings of his Christian neighbors:
But as he notes, such nostalgia can also be twisted to nefarious purposes.I’m sure many people in the community had motives other than anti-Semitism for lamenting the loss of traditions they cherished and were forced to give up because a bunch of newcomers had moved in. To feel discomfort when your community changes is a common sentiment from which no group is immune. ... The American passion for Christmas is deeply bound up in nostalgia. That can be, and usually is, a beautiful, perfectly innocent emotion connected to family and childhood celebrations.
