I just got back from doing what I could to stop America’s dangerous flirtation with socialism; if Bernie Sanders is still in the race after tonight, it won’t be because of a lack of effort on my part. I met a lovely woman while waiting in line for the Democratic voting booth – she was pretty, blonde, and, I would have guessed, about my age (I’m 52). Two remarkable things emerged during our conversation.

First, she told me that she worked for Bobby Kennedy during the ’68 primary, and was actually at the Ambassador Hotel on that tragic evening. If she were actually my age, that would have made her four years old at the time. If I had to guess, I’d say she was telling me the truth – and is one of the millions of Angelenos who invest in highly effective strategies to make themselves appear decades younger than they are. Whatever she did was definitely working: She was a stunner.

Second, she said she was worried that Donald Trump will “destroy the country,” but mentioned that she had not known, until a poll worker told her, to her great surprise, minutes before, that Trump has a Jewish daughter. The worry about anti-Semitism in the Trump movement is prevalent and serious, and it’s strange that Trump would not make that fact about his daughter better known. FWIW, in the interest of pure fairness I told this lady that I’ve seen no evidence that Trump himself is anti-Semitic. The problem, as I and others see it, is that he is rather blasé about the fact that many of his professed supporters are. (And frankly, it wouldn’t take much to reassure me on this score; all he’d need to do is say that “the fact that people endorse me isn’t a sign that I endorse them.” This would be so easy to do that one wonders why he doesn’t do it: Does he think it would make him sound mealy-mouthed or “politically correct”? I could assure him that he’s in no danger of either accusation.) In any case, the fact that Trump has Jewish family members didn’t seem to do much to reassure the lady I was talking to about his fitness for office, which is of course challengeable on many other grounds.