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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Laura Rozen

      1. The alleged shooter believed in the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that "the Jews" are working to destroy white America by bringing in immigrants. It's a cousin of the idea that George Soros is paying for "the Caravan." Let's talk about anti-Semitic ideology.https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1056222481986580481 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Laura Rozen @lrozen
      17days ago, Bowers wrote HIAS likes “to bring in hostile invaders to dwell among us? We appreciate the list of friends you have provided” pic.twitter.com/yLMShJRK0e
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Daniel Dale

      2. Good summary of alleged shooter's worldview. He belonged to the far right faction that sees Trump as "controlled opposition" (or a false flag president, if you will) -- i.e. Trump claims to stand for white America but actually works for "the Jews"https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1056231535685394435 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Daniel DaleVerified account @ddale8
      Social media accounts suggest shooting suspect Robert Bowers was a neo-Nazi/white nationalist who loathed Jews, migrants and refugees. He also said he strongly disliked Trump because he thought Trump was too soft on Jews.
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Tom Scocca

      3. The idea that George Soros (symbol for many on right of Jewish conspiracy) is behind Caravan isn't confined to Nazis. Here's Congressman Matt Gaetzhttps://twitter.com/tomscocca/status/1056239019745570817 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Tom Scocca @tomscocca
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          4. Here is popular Trumpist cartoonist Ben Garrison -- again, someone with an audience outside the Nazi right but circulating idea that Soros is working to destroy America.pic.twitter.com/K6Pyqn4PkA

          38 replies 554 retweets 1,277 likes
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          5. House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthypic.twitter.com/A7wBdP79UN

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          6. @attackerman and @chick_in_kiev have both written about how all these Soros theories replicate classic anti-Semitic tropes. https://www.thedailybeast.com/theres-been-a-george-soros-for-every-era-of-antisemitic-panic …https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/10/24/conspiracy-theories-about-soros-arent-just-false-theyre-anti-semitic/?utm_term=.f90f52c9bfe1 …

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          7. The Soros stuff is just one of many manifestations of the the grand anti-Semitic trope (cosmopolitan Jews are destroying traditional nations) that pervades the alt-right and shades into the respectable right. Others examples: Frankfurt School, "Globalism"

          15 replies 260 retweets 995 likes
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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          8. Anti-semitism has ancient & medieval roots but the variety we're talking about (idea that cosmopolitan Jews are destroying traditional nations) is really a hallmark of the nationalist right since the 19th century.

          6 replies 271 retweets 1,028 likes
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        7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          9. The nationalist right posits and idealizes a cohesive volk community and therefore for structural reasons needs to have an internal scapegoat upon whom internal divisions can be blamed. So in West it's naturally drawn to already existing anti-Semitic narratives.

          6 replies 192 retweets 791 likes
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        8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          10. Right-wing nationalism needs anti-Semitism (or some very similar ideology) for structural reasons: all nations have internal divisions & therefore there has to be someone upon whom these can be blamed.

          6 replies 202 retweets 827 likes
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        9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          11. Further, because capitalism is prone is recurring crisis, right-wing nationalists need someone to blame economic problems on. As nationalists, they are loath to blame wealthy who belong to ethnic majority (are part of "the people"). Hence, repeatedly, blame wealthy Jews.

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        10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          12. As August Bebel famously said, "anti-semitism is the socialism of fools" -- i.e. a way of blaming structural problems of capitalism on unpopular minority. That's a big part of story, but there's more: anti-Semitism needed to explain mass uprisings.

          4 replies 244 retweets 1,037 likes
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        11. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          13. Since the French Revolution, we've repeatedly witnesses popular uprisings of subaltern classes: workers, colonized, women, racial minorities, LGBT etc. This poses a conceptual problem for right-wing nationalists, who posit organic cohesion as norm.

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        12. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          14. For the right-wing nationalist, popular uprisings (unless of nationalist intent) are unnatural. But how to explain the discontent of workers, colonized, women, etc? Acknowledging legitimate grievances would mean having to accept social change.

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        13. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          15. Unable (because of commitment to social status quo) to acknowledge grievances of subaltern classes, the right-wing nationalist needs a scapegoat who can be blamed for discord. For historical reasons, easiest handy one is myth of conniving conspiratorial Jew.

          4 replies 186 retweets 774 likes
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        14. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Oct 2018

          16. The Soros of right-wing mythology (globalist intent on destroy cohesive nations) fit the long history of blaming internal discord on outside agitators as well as the Dolchstoßlegende. The nationalist needs a cosmopolitan nemesis.

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