The conclusion is, to put it simply, ridiculous. Is Kirchik unaware of anti-Semitism among America's largest minority groups, especially African-Americans and Hispanics (particularly new immigrants from Latin America), as well as among Muslims? The Anti-Defamation League conducts regular surveys of Americans by group and of populations in foreign countries to identify how many people hold anti-Semitic views. If one responds to certain questions with certain responses -- Jews are too powerful, Jews control Wall Street, Jews control the media, Jews always think accumulation of money is paramount, Jews are untrustworthy -- then this fits a classic anti-Semitic profile. The United States has one of the lowest anti-Semitic scores in the world, 9%. But it is more than double that among African-Americans and Hispanics and many times as high among Muslims. If only the white population is considered, the anti-Semitism rate in America is about 4%.
Does Kirchik really believe that the anti-Semites identified in the ADL survey, who number in the tens of millions if the survey results are extrapolated to the general population, are all Trump supporters? One wonders how this line made it through his Commentary editors. Is Kirchik unfamiliar with the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, or the incendiary anti-Semitism often found on black talk radio?
Richard Baehr, the author of the posted article, is right on target here, as far as he goes.
But, as a matter of classification of political ideologies, I'm not sure if I would call Trump a "right-wing" candidate, nor would I necessarily classify the antisemitic Trump supporters as "right-wing."
It surely works to the left's advantage to call them "right-wing," as it scares off potential Trump voters by painting Trump's candidacy as a "fascist" movement.
IMHO, the Trump candidacy is neither "right-wing" nor "left-wing," but rather a populist amalgam of proposals from both.
And try Bernie Sanders supporters on the campuses.
Not True.
Virtually all muslims are both racist anti-Semites and oppose Trump.
Virtually all leftist Palestinian supporters are both racist anti-Semites and oppose Trump.
American politics is descending into this same kind of depraved hysteria.
And yes, the author of the first story chose to ignore the significantly larger numbers of Jew haters in the Democrat's tent, probably because he is blinded by his own bias in support of leftist candidates. For shame.
Bottom line with lefties, they are surrounded with frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Semites of the very worst kind. Their party and ideology is in bed with them and putting out like a five dollar whore at a frat party. That is not to say that all leftists are anti-Semites, but that those that are not are in deep denial, and not at all happy about the reality they won’t admit exists. So what do they do with their subconscious misgivings? Project them onto the “right-wing ‘extremists’” and especially Donald J. Trump, who can truthfully say that ‘some of my best grandchildren are Jewish.’ You can’t reason with them, or make them see their flawed paradigms, because they are in deep denial.