One of the questions I receive on a recurring basis from Christians is why Jews vote the way they do. The question generally starts out by mentioning that Jews have the reputation of being intelligent, so how is it, puzzled Christians go on, that they vote like ignoramuses.

I have made many attempts over the years to explain the seemingly inexplicable. Just the other day, on receipt of an email from a reader, I had to do it all over again.

I always begin by pointing out that wisdom is not the same thing as being well-educated and that making a good living doesn’t necessarily go hand-in-hand with having even a grain of commonsense. With that out of the way, I went on to write: “Jews are nearly always on the Left and see their role in life as identifying with those they deem to be downtrodden, even though those people — blacks, illegal Hispanic aliens and felons — are among the worst anti-Semites in America.

"Jews are often raised in matriarchal homes, which helps to explain why so many more of them wind up as doctors, lawyers, scientists, accountants, set designers and gay, than in the military or working on a police force.

"It even explains why they often side with Muslims, especially on college campuses, in debasing Israel. It is engraved in the racial memory of Jews that we have suffered time and again at the hands of European Christians — even going so far as to misidentify the pagan Hitler as a Christian.

"It doesn’t help that a great many Jews insist on pretending that they personally suffered through pogroms, in much the same way that Blacks like to pretend they felt the lash of the whip in the cotton fields.

"It probably doesn’t help that in pursuing those advanced university degrees, Jews typically wind up spending far too many years in school, absorbing propaganda from leftwing, often Jewish, professors who simultaneously promote Islam and socialism while attacking Judaism, Christianity and capitalism.

"I know it doesn’t really make a lot of sense that those who have benefited to such an extent from the freedoms and safety guaranteed by the Founding Fathers, most of whom were Christians, to appear so appallingly ungrateful. But, then, it is always easier to diagnose insanity than it is to cure it.”

I understand, and fully share, the anger and frustration so many people feel towards Obama and Congress. But I fail to see Donald Trump as the solution to the problem. When I see or hear from his supporters, I tend to picture them as people suffering from lung cancer, who, instead of hoping for a cure, decide they’d rather exchange it for leukemia.

Like Bernie Goldberg, I believe that Trump would have preferred to run as a Democrat, but decided it would be easier to run roughshod over the GOP contenders than have to face Hillary Clinton, whom he not only claimed had been a great Secretary of State, but deemed the best person to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran.

Moreover, he shares common ground with Bernie Sanders when it comes to Obamacare. Both New Yorkers favor a single-payer health care system. So much for New York values, which have a lot less to do with first responders than with the socialist agenda, which explains why the morons keep electing governors named Cuomo and mayors like Michael Bloomberg and Bill De Blasio.

Finally, in case you missed it, at a Townhall meeting in South Carolina, Trump told Joe Scarborough that he doesn’t want to take sides between Israel and the Arabs. Mr. Tough Guy said he prefers to remain neutral.

Imagine being neutral in a conflict between a free nation that is one of our few allies in the world and a group of guttersnipes who call for Israel’s extinction and who rally to the cry of “Death to America.”

This is the shmoe his supporters think is ready to defend our country? Well, perhaps against an impending invasion from Canada. But, frankly, I think Vladimir Putin would pants him and take away the fat boy’s lunch money.

With the passing of Antonin Scalia, America lost one of the few remaining jurists who get their marching orders from the likes of Madison, Jefferson and Monroe, not from the editorial board of the New York Times.

Scalia was the man who said “As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to do what the people want, instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.”

This was a man who was so personable, so wise, witty and delightful, that even fellow justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who rarely if ever agreed with him on a Court decision, had only kind and loving words to say upon his passing.

But because Barack Obama, who is neither witty nor delightful, disagreed with Scalia’s strict adherence to the text of the Constitution, he and the missus opted to skip his funeral.

I hate to attend funerals, too, but I’m not the President. Plus, Obama doesn’t object to attending them as a rule. In fact, he generally finds himself called upon — generally by himself — to deliver a speech, often calling for the abolition of the Second Amendment.

In fact, since assuming office, he has attended half a dozen. Three of the deceased were political allies (Sen. Daniel Inouye, Sen. Robert Byrd and ex-Speaker of the House Tom Foley); two were females (Rev. Clemente Pickney and 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton) who had been shooting victims, providing him with another excuse to flail away at the Second Amendment.

The sixth was that of former news anchor Walter Cronkite, whom Obama had never met, but whose nightly propaganda screeds helped cost the U.S. a victory in Vietnam. For Obama, it was enough that Cronkite had ensured that America’s sacrifice in blood and treasure would be in vain, mirroring his own actions when it came to Iraq.

It should also be noted that Obama failed to attend the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, after having already shown his anti-British bias by evicting the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office.

So far as the race for the GOP nomination is concerned, I would like to know why — if it’s true that 40% of those in the U.S. illegally didn’t sneak across the border, but simply ignored the end date on their visas — we’re not hearing any of the candidates spending 40% of the time they devote to immigration discussing a solution to that particular problem.

As for the wall, when and if they ever get around to building it, I hope they keep in mind that it is often easier to go under a wall than over it. It’s something gophers know instinctively.

Speaking of politicians, Mark Twain once observed: “Truth is a precious commodity…and we should therefore be economical with it.”

As I watch one debate after another, I realize it is a suggestion that even politicians who have never read Twain understand instinctively, which nearly places them on an equal footing with your average gopher.