(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitism is now just another part of the Republican party's accepted principles

[agingdem]

4. I cannot remember when the Republican Party was not

antisemitic, racist, xenophobic, anti-gay...but Trump brought that half whispered hate out of the shadows and into the White House and legitimized it...veiled stereotypical tropes became overt...Charlottesville "Jews will not replace us".."good people on both sides"...racial hate morphed into "shit hole countries", babies in cages, the wall, the muslim ban..all with no Republican Party pushback..

as a child I remember our next door neighbor, a pillar of the community...city alderman, chairman of the local Republican Party, bank president, Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year...stand in his driveway hurling vile antisemitic insults at my parents, Holocaust survivors, and threatening to burn down my father's "Jew store"... we moved...