Bret "Bug" Stephens wrote a whole long column entitled "Meet the
New Antisemites, Same as the Old Antisemites" filled with things that may have
you nodding in agreement, until you hit the last paragraph, where, like a
scuttling scorpion, Stephens has a venomous sting waiting for you.
Or, if you prefer, the razor in the apple is in the last bite.
But first
The good news from the recent donnybrook over Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Hitler fanboy with a sizable social-media following, is that it has at last forced conservatives to reckon with the sewer pipe of antisemitism bursting through their walls...
The bad news is that none of this is going away anytime soon. If ever.
And this:
Antisemitism was supposedly banished twice from the conservative universe: first in the 1950s, when William F. Buckley Jr. decreed that nobody on the masthead of the antisemitic American Mercury would appear in the pages of his own National Review; second in the 1990s, when he said it was “impossible to defend” Pat Buchanan from charges of antisemitism. Such was Buckley’s prestige on the right that none other than Carlson issued his own denunciation of Buchanan: “I’m not hysterical on the subject,” he said on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” in 1999, “but I do believe that there is a pattern with Pat Buchanan of needling the Jews.”...
And this:
Now the Heritage Foundation and various conservative publications are pressing the Trump administration to award an unrepentant Buchanan the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
How did this happen? Cynicism is one reason...
A second factor is the forced merger of Christianity with conservatism...
So far, so good. But here comes the inevitable comes a hedge made of bullshit, because Stephens cannot help himself,
Then there’s political ideology. The MAGA movement is not antisemitic. But many of its core convictions are antisemitic-adjacent...
However, Stephens seems to get himself back on track with:
Finally, it bears reminding that antisemitism isn’t merely a prejudice. It’s a conspiracy theory about Jews.
And then, just when you think you might have slogged all the way through a Bret Stephens column about the wide streak of antisemitism that has been a part of his Conservative movement since before he was born without him reaching for the Both Sides Do It craphammer, comes this:
The idea that modern politics amounts to a malicious scheme organized by an insidious cabal of deep-state insiders and globalists at the expense of ordinary people is now received wisdom on the right, paralleling far-left convictions about the purported evils of Zionists and their billionaire backers.
And this:
The tsunami of progressive antisemitism that hit after Oct. 7 is being followed by another wave, just as tall...
No matter how far into the fascist abyss their depraved former party sinks, bitter, broken creatures like Bret Bug will never miss a change to grab a shovel and try to bury us in the same political grave as their fascist former playmates and cronies.
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