(Jewish Group) The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism in the US
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The word bizarre does not begin to capture the everyday craziness of our politics in the Trump era. Heres the opening paragraph of a column in National Review, titled An Epidemic of Dishonesty on the Right, by bona fide right-winger Kevin D. Williamson:
First it was the Holocaust, now Parklandis there any act of depravity to which the less respectable right-wing media cannot imagine a connection for George Soros?
David Clarke, the sheriff of Fox News, insisted that the Florida students reaction to the shooting has GEORGE SOROS FINGERPRINTS all over it, idiotic capitalization in the original and, one assumes, in his soul. The idiots at Gateway Pundit suggested that one of the student survivors was a fraud becauseget thished been interviewed on television before about an unrelated incident.
Had I written the above in The Nation, I would not change a word, except perhaps to add that, roughly simultaneously to all of the above, the head of the Missouri Republican Party was blaming Soros for the indictment of the states governor, Eric Greitens, who is accused of taking surreptitious nude photos of his mistress for the purpose of blackmail.
The desire to attach Soross name to virtually everything that Trumpists seek to denounce of late is inextricably tied to the fact that the liberal Jewish billionaire/philanthropist has been turned into a bogeyman for anti-Semites the world over. Soros is todays stand-in for the time-honored anti-Jewish slanders sensationalized in Europe and elsewhere in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Thats why Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary practically turned Soroswhom he blames for destroy[ing] the lives of millions of Europeansinto his opposition party in that nations recent elections. Its why, in Macedonia, a group called Stop Operation Soros, or SOS, emerged to try to defend that nations corrupt right-wing party. Its why Polands ruling party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, said he believes that Soros views cosmopolitan societies as extremely easy to manipulate. Right-wing idiots have been setting fire to effigies and portraits representing Soros in rallies from Warsaw to Tbilisi.
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