This post is dedicated to the impressive volume of emailers, commenters, and mahjong-group dispatchers who have written, with varying degrees of grace, to inform me that I have a left-wing blind spot.

I see you. I hear you. And — because I am nothing if not responsive to constructive feedback — today I am extending the same diagnostic seriousness to the right that I have been extending to the left for the past month.

Here is what I am doing, plainly. The framework I have been applying to the left — antisemitism as a self-replicating conspiracy theory, an operating system that runs across political environments — only matters if it works in both directions. If it only diagnoses one side of the spectrum, it is not a framework. It is a partisan rhetorical move with intellectual decorations. So this piece is the stress test. Same diagnostic apparatus, applied to a different political ecosystem. We will see whether the architecture holds.

Antisemites on the right: I did not forget about you. You were just easier to identify. There is no conceptual heavy lifting required to recognize antisemitism at a tiki torch parade chanting “Jews will not replace us.” The hard work has been naming the version that wears better clothing — the kind that wraps itself in liberation vocabulary and dares you, on pain of professional ostracism, to call it what it is.

I will be honest; it is almost refreshing to spend a post on people who proudly identify as Nazis. There is something almost nostalgic about a movement that puts the swastika on the front of the shirt rather than embroidering it inside the collar of an “anti-colonial liberation” hoodie. Brevity. Clarity. A complete absence of subtext.

OK — that joke, retired. Because the operating system I described in Crash Course[1] — antisemitism as a conspiracy theory, a structural template that swaps in new vocabulary every century while keeping the same bones underneath — does not run on only one side of the political spectrum. It is the operating system.

Once the conservative movement’s preferred Black female commentator. Now: a podcast empire built on questioning the Holocaust, running extended segments on “the Christ killers,” and arguing that “the Zionist lobby” is the hidden hand behind essentially every cultural development she dislikes. The vocabulary has been workshopped for an evangelical audience. The architecture is the architecture.[2]

Has used his post-Fox platform to host Holocaust revisionists in the friendliest available tone, nod along while guests describe Winston Churchill as the chief villain of World War II, and platform — with the practiced civility of a man who has decided that opening a microphone absolves him of responsibility for what comes out — voices an earlier generation of conservatives flagged as fringe. He is just asking questions. The question becomes the platform becomes the canon.[3]

The easy one. Holocaust denial on camera, “Christ is King” chants, a following of young men who self-identify as “groypers” and have made it their full-time hobby to harass Jewish students online. He is the right-wing antisemite the right-wing antisemites do not bother defending. The costume is the message, and the message is unmistakable.[4]

A Note on the Big Kids Table

Here is the part where I am going to do something I have not done much of, which is give the institutional Republican Party a small amount of credit. The difference, at least at this particular moment in time, between the antisemites on the far right and the antisemites on the far left is that the antisemites on the far right are not currently being given a seat at the big kids table.

(I know. I know. There was that one time at Mar-a-Lago.[5] But I digress.)

Trump, of all people, has actually been shooting off some pointed tweets lately criticizing his former pal Tucker and the lunacy that is Candace Owens.[6] The institutional GOP has been, by 2026 standards, surprisingly clear that this faction does not speak for them. Senate Republicans are not opening for Nick Fuentes at fundraisers. Candace is not getting booked to keynote a Heritage Foundation gala. The Owens-Carlson-Fuentes axis is loud and growing, but it is loud and growing on its own platforms — not on the platforms of mainstream conservative politics.

The same cannot be said for the left.

The nightmare fuel that is Hasan Piker — a Twitch streamer with three million followers who has called Hamas “a thousand times better” than the IDF, said he has “no issue” with Hezbollah, and argued that anyone with “positive feelings about Israel” should be barred from any position of import down to the level of local dog catcher[7] — was interviewed in March 2025 at Bernie Sanders’s “Fighting Oligarchy” rally alongside AOC, courted by the 2024 Harris campaign as a “Creator for Kamala,” platformed by Rolling Stone, and is currently being embraced as a campaign surrogate by Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.[8]

The ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt has called Piker “one of the most outspoken, virulent antisemitic influencers in the world.” Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres has called him “the poster child for the post-October 7th outbreak of antisemitism in America.”[9] The Democratic operatives courting him are, by all available evidence, undeterred.

That is the asymmetry. Not in volume........

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