Former President Donald Trump has found time to call for the “termination” of the Constitution on social media, yet he still hasn’t managed to criticize comments made by his recent private dinner guest, Ye — the rapper formerly known as Kanye West — who took to a podcast to praise Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and express sympathy for Nazis. Trump’s other guest that night, the white supremacist Nick Fuentes, has called for “a total Aryan victory.”
It would be tempting to dismiss such statements as the usual rantings by the usual crazies, except that the host of this vile gathering is still the odds-on favorite to be the Republican nominee for president. If Trump can’t bring himself to condemn such sentiments, his party needs to.
The ex-president’s dinner came as public expressions of antisemitism seem to be surging. In the weeks after Elon Musk purchased Twitter Inc. in October, smears against Jews on the platform rose by 61%, according to a recent study. Another analysis found antisemitic incidents, including assaults and vandalism, reached an all-time high in the US last year. Some of the hatred may have been fueled by NBA star Kyrie Irving, who promoted a movie that traffics in ugly antisemitic tropes and false claims, then didn’t seem to understand what he had done wrong. (He has since apologized.)
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