question about jewish republicans

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Some people, whatever their background, move to the right because they reject leftist ideas. Boring answer, I know, but most of these don't necessarily seem influenced by religious movements. The Hasidic community keeps to itself and is not the demographic within Judaism that's culturally influential.

And yeah you asked this question so we have to say, part of the answer is that Jewish people are very culturally influential in America on a per capita basis, whereas the masses of conservative Christians tend to less often become public intellectuals. This is a culture that loves books, debates, and college, is a huge fraction of stand-up comedians, and so on.

Some Jewish conservatives have been influenced by Jewish issues, though. Prager advocated for Jewish people unable to leave the Soviet Union, which seems to have led to a strong anti-communism. Yoram Hazony and Ben Shapiro are more on the Orthodox end and have these ideas about national sovereignty and religious conservatism coming from that.