Antisemitism Has No Place in Politics
A spate of disturbing incidents makes it necessary to state the obvious: Everyone needs to condemn bigotry against Jews.
Two of a kind.
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Former President Donald Trump has found time to call for the “termination” of the Constitution on social media, yet he still hasn’t managed to criticize comments made by his recent private dinner guest, Ye — the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — who took to a podcast to praise Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and express sympathy for Nazis. Trump’s other guest that night, the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, has called for “a total Aryan victory.”
It would be tempting to dismiss such statements as the usual rantings by the usual crazies, except that the host of this vile gathering is still the odds-on favorite to be the Republican nominee for president. If Trump can’t bring himself to condemn such sentiments, his party needs to.