Thomas Zimmer
What an absolute disaster that Republicans are still successfully playing their disgustingly cynical game of exploiting fears over antisemitism in order to advance their reactionary crusade – and mainstream institutions keep willfully playing along.
I wrote about this a while ago here:
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https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/we-are-falling-apart
Thomas Zimmer
We have reached a truly bizarre place in our political discourse when supposedly serious people want us to believe that the party of Trump, QAnon, and “Great Replacement” is the bulwark against antisemitism in America. 2/
Thomas Zimmer
After pretending to be really upset about campus antisemitism during the congressional hearings in December, Stefanik ran off to meet “her friend,” the leader of a fascistic movement, the guy who is raging against immigrants “poisoning the blood of our country.” 3/
Thomas Zimmer
Her “friend” Donald Trump subscribes to all the usual antisemitic stereotypes and has long been pushing antisemitic tropes about Jews only liking money, only being loyal to Israel. He has no discernible conception of American Jews as Americans, only as “them” rather than “us.” 4/
Thomas Zimmer
Elise Stefanik is obviously not interested in an effort to fight antisemitism. She is engaged in a cynical attempt to use Jews to suppress speech reactionaries don’t like, advance the antiliberal “counterrevolution,” and punish those the Right sees as the enemy within. 5/
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