Anti-Semitism: The Terrible Fright of “Unite the Right” - David Unsworth (discusses Wm. Buckley)

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Anti-Semitism: The Terrible Fright of “Unite the Right”
By: David Unsworth - @LatinAmerUpdate - Aug 14, 2017, 1:42 pm

Two generations ago, William F. Buckley Jr. drummed a group of xenophobic, ultra-nationalist, John Bircher types out of the modern conservative movement. Buckley took them to task for being what they were: crackpots who viewed a Jewish conspiracy in just about every economic and geopolitical decision undertaken by the US government.

Jonathan Tobin, writing in the Jewish World Review argues that “as much as any other person, Bill Buckley cleared the way not only for a conservative movement where Jews would be welcomed” and “it was his leadership that set the stage for an American politics in which anti-Semitism was confined to the fever swamps of the far right and far left.”

It should be patently obvious that the fringe elements involved in the shameful “Unite the Right” rally have nothing in common with the Constitutionalist/libertarian message that Ron and Rand Paul have been advocating, or the mainstream Republicanism of the post-Cold War era, or the social and political conservatism of today’s religious right. The oddball hodgepodge of ragtag idealogues represented at the “Unite the Right” rally appear to enjoy one common theme with regard to their frightening worldview: anti-semitism.

Continued: https://panampost.com/david-unsworth/2017/08/14/anti-semitism-unite-right/