Until recently, centuries-long, right-wing antisemitism seemed vestigial in America. The Republican Party, and conservative leaders like William F. Buckley Jr., had mostly marginalized antisemites and their fellow travelers. According to recent polls, such as the March 2025 Gallup survey, Republicans as a group still express overwhelmingly positive views of Israel (83 percent)—in sharp contrast to Democrats’ utterly anemic support (33 percent).
Right-wing antisemitic remnants were thought to be confined to a few fringe groups online or paltry, ossified Klan-like cabals. Given the history of European pogroms, the nightmare of the Third Reich, and its unapologetic racial and religious hatred, right-wing antisemitism had always been a more easily identifiable, cruder variant than the insidious and now more frequent left-wing antisemitism.
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