The Right’s Antisemitism Is Too Flagrant to Ignore
Right-wing influencers give Nazi salutes in limousines and peddle conspiracy theories about Jews to audiences of millions, while “moderate” Republicans dog-whistle about “authentic” American heritage. The GOP’s antisemitism problem is no longer fringe.
The Trump administration smears protesters of Israel’s assault on Gaza as antisemites while actual antisemitism — Hitler salutes, conspiracy theories, slurs about “the Jews” — surges in its own coalition. (Dominic Gwinn / Getty Images)
Earlier this month, the official X account of the US Department of Labor posted a black-and-white video combining a collage of patriotic imagery with a soundtrack that seemed to be designed to evoke dystopian science fiction. The text accompanying the video read:
One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.
Remember who you are, American.
The day before, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted the recruitment website for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) along with an image of a cowboy riding under a drone and the slogan, “We’ll have our home again.” This is a phrase that’s unlikely to mean much to most Americans, but it’s the title of a white supremacist anthem sung to the tune of a nineteenth-century sea shanty.
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