We have at last reached the point where overt antisemitism in the US feels routine. For years now, conservatives have dog-whistled about, for instance, Jewish billionaire George Soros’s Elder of Zion–like control over the Democratic Party. Eventually, this gave way to something even darker. Donald Trump’s candidacy heralded the reemergence of straight-up Jew-hatred, bringing social media–fueled white nationalism into the mainstream.

Inevitably, the antisemitic fervor he stoked had lethal consequences: this past October, a white supremacist massacred eleven Jews at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. And this past Saturday, at a Chabad center in Poway, California, just outside San Diego, a white supremacist directly inspired by the Pittsburgh shooter opened fire and killed a woman, Lori Gilbert Kaye, who reportedly jumped in front of her rabbi, taking a bullet on his behalf. Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi whose life Gilbert Kaye saved, lamented in a New York Times op-ed on Monday that “today should have been my funeral.”

This steady escalation of American antisemitism has, at every turn, been accompanied by conservative and centrist insistence on denying or downplaying its source: white supremacy. After Saturday’s shooting, Mark Dubowitz, the head of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an influential right-wing policy shop, immediately said that the problem is both sides: “Some on the ideological left deny the anti-Semites on their side. Some on the ideological right deny the anti-Semites on their side.”