“On February 20, 2023, at a re-election campaign event in West Palm Beach, Florida, former President Trump was asked by a supporter how he planned to combat the “alarming rise of antisemitism all across America.”
“We’ll get it stopped,” Trump responded, before immediately adding, “As you know, they’re after the radical Right now, and it’s very unfair.” Repeating familiar tirades against “Antifa” and “BLM,” Trump insisted of the “radical Right” that, “in many cases, these are people that love our country like nobody loves our country,” before touting his former administration’s far-right pro-Israel agenda. Trump’s defense of “radical Right” antisemites as “people that love our country” like no one else helped underscore the substantive alignment between the highest echelons of the MAGA movement and its radicalizing edge…
Antisemitism today has become a core driver of the illiberal, anti-democratic Right. Its flexible meta-narrative helps unify different sectors of the Right—from White and Christian nationalists, to self-interested billionaires, anti-trans advocates, nativists, and more—under the aegis of a common, all-powerful enemy said to be responsible for societal degeneracy and perceived victimization.”
Ben Lorber 
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