(Jewish Group) Trump destroyed the guardrails against antisemitism -- and there's no going back

[Behind the Aegis]

In September 1988, James Baker fired four members of an ethnic outreach coalition he’d recently established. Baker, then manager of Vice President George Bush Sr.’s campaign for president, made the move soon after a news story revealed their past associations with a variety of fascist or antisemitic organizations.

In one case, it wasn’t even entirely a first-degree association. Florian Galdau, a New York archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church, had been a loyal and zealous defender of that sect’s U.S. leader — a prominent, self-confessed activist during World War II of the Iron Guard, Romania’s wartime pro-Nazi movement. Galdau staunchly backed his superior, Valerian Trifa, during the Justice Department’s effort to deport him for lying about this past to gain entry to the country and obtain American citizenship.

The three other members of the American Nationalities Coalition included a Croatian American active in organizations that denied the Holocaust, a Catholic priest listed in Italy as a member of a neo-fascist secret organization, and a Republican activist who had served as a junior envoy to Berlin of Hungary’s pro-Nazi Arrow Cross regime during World War II.

As the reporter who broke that story, I recognized that the Bush campaign was acting in line with the Talmudic mandate to “build a fence around the Torah,” that is, to construct outer guardrails around the principles you hold dear.

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[reymega life]

1. trump wrecked politics nuff said

[David__77]

2. Anti-Semitism is the "secret sauce" of MAGA.

It’s a central thread tying disparate groups together ideologically. Recently this is perhaps more clear, which may help cause the destruction/containment of that overall trend.

[Chainfire]

3. I think that they hate Gays, Jews, Blacks, Hispanics and Liberals equally.

We are just going to have to put them back in their box again using 100 year nails to keep it closed. The Republican Far Reich Party is a danger to every American, but the good thing is that we outnumber them...They just need a reminder of that fact.

The band Steppenwolf told us how to handle our Fascist neighbors back in 1969. (substitute Fascist for Pusher)

Well, now if I were the president of this land
You know, I'd declare total war on The Pusher man
I'd cut him if he stands, and I'd shoot him if he'd run
Yes I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun

God damn The Pusher

[drmeow]

4. I think the various hatreds

have different flavors, if you will. POC - people who clearly look different - they can identify and strive to eliminate (some from the country entirely but they want to keep some around to indenture to serve them). But I think that people who can "pass" - people who do not obviously look different from them (which includes Jews, LGBTQ, and liberals) inspire a greater vitriol and a different kind of violence because Jews, LGBTQ, and liberals might "get away with" acquiring benefits which they feel are "rightfully" only theirs by "tricking" them into thinking the Jews, LGBTQ, and liberals are "one of them" and therefore "worthy." (Quotation marks because all of that is complete and utter bullshit!)

I think that's the reason you don't hear them chanting "Blacks will not replace us" but you do hear them chanting "Jews will not replace us." To them, POC don't know their place but Jews, etc., are a threat. Both views are violent and hateful and dangerous but I think there is a difference.