5. Part of the reason is that since World War II, Americans used to thinking about racism as a fringe phenomenon in their society.
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6. The last major public figures where were anti-Semitic flourished in 1930s & 1940s: Lindbergh, Coughlin, Theodore Bilbo
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7. Sorry in point #5, I meant anti-Semitism, not racism, became fringe after World War II
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8. Also Trump has a personal story that gives him some immunity: Jewish daughter, son-in-law, grand kids.
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9. As always, it think it's best to see racism & anti-Semitism as public ideologies rather than personal vices.
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10. George Wallace, for example, turned his racism on and off as was politically expedient. It wasn't personal, but matter of politics.
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11. In Trump's case, important to understand that anti-Semitism is structurally necessary for the type of right-wing populism he's selling.
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here's a sanders fundraising email "make a $3 contribution to say you have had ENOUGH" of Lloyd blankfein https://www.google.com/amp/observer.com/2016/02/bernie-sanders-is-now-fundraising-off-lloyd-blankfein/amp/ …
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Can you see the difference between criticizing individual Jews & linking only Jews to a international conspiracy?
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of course, but can you not see how the very same sort of larger trope WAS present in sanders camp?
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Show me an ad where Sanders singled out only Jews as the masterminds behind policies that hurt America.
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moving goal posts a bit. sanders indicted a small 'Wall Street' cabal and regularly accused several Jews of being involved
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