1980. I recognized in Reagan's election that the liberalism I had for years seen as the real danger was being superseded, that the right was gaining … - Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

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1980. I recognized in Reagan's election that the liberalism I had for years seen as the real danger was being superseded, that the right was gaining power, with all its Jew-hating, racist, sexist, homophobic capitalist thrust. At the same time the anti-Semitism I was encountering in the women's movement and on the left hurt me more, not because it was more threatening but because the feminist left was where I needed to be: this added to my sense of isolation as a Jew.