The GOP's Surrender to the Antisemites

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The GOP’s Surrender to the Antisemites

September 13, 2022 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 86 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/09/13/the-gops-surrender-to-the-antisemites/

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Jonathan Chait: “Trump’s rise has reshaped the GOP, driving out some of its constituent elements while bringing in previously excluded factions, the ranks of which include virulent antisemites. The lessons of Hitler’s Germany have been badly overapplied, so it is important to contextualize these events carefully.”

“The GOP may not be an antisemitic party. Indeed, it has managed to maintain a big tent that includes both Jewish ultrahawks like Miriam Adelson and their most paranoid enemies. Nevertheless, it has become a party in which antisemitism has gained a foothold. No recent development in American life has done more to throw American Jews’ safety and civic equality into doubt.”

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[MatthewG.]

1. I'm Jewish and I knew this was coming...

I’m Jewish, and I could see as far back as 2016 that this was coming. The rise of the alt-right (the most viciously anti-Semitic movement I’ve ever seen in the United States) and their mainstreaming within conservative politics made this inevitable.

Should be noted that homophobia, Islamophobia, and racism have long been mainstays of American conservatism and the contemporary Republican Party. Only the addition of anti-Semitism is relatively recent.

[agingdem]

2. Charlottesville..."good people on both sides"

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that should have sounded the alarm in Trump’s inner circle…Gary Cohn, Steve Mnuchin, Jared Kushner and others said next to nothing…Gary Cohn was a little upset but said he was going to stick around and usher in the tax break for the top 1%.. then there’s the Stephen Miller, that self-hating reptile…like you, I’m not surprised…Trump took racism/antisemitism out of the shadows and into the White House..he legitimized it..and no one said anything..

[tanyev]

3. Maybe that's why Miriam Adelson has cut back on her donations. Oh well.

Miriam Adelson, the widow of the late GOP mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, has given less in donations to the Republican Party since her husband’s death last year, according to Federal Elections Commission (FEC) data.

Sheldon Adelson spent much of his fortune promoting Republican candidates and pro-Israel conservative causes before he died in January 2021 at age 87. He gave more than $420 million to conservative candidates and groups during the 2020 election cycle, and he and his wife spent more than $520 million on federal races between 2009 and last year, according to an analysis from a nonprofit working to reduce the role of money in politics.

But FEC data shows that Miriam Adelson has only made two donations during the current cycle since her husband’s death. She donated $5 million in July to the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC that works to elect Republicans to the House, and $5,000 in June 2021 to the Stand for America PAC, which former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) established to support conservative causes.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3626124-sheldon-adelsons-widow-cuts-back-on-gop-donations/