To the editor: In his try to save lots of the MAGA coalition, contributing author Josh Hammer refuses to acknowledge that this motion has all the time had an underbelly of racism and antisemitism (“Provocateurs are attempting to make use of antisemitism to splinter the MAGA coalition,” Oct. 10). How shortly he erases the tiki-torch bearers of Nazi and accomplice flags at Charlottesville, Va., chanting “Jews is not going to substitute us.”
The management we obtained in response to that day from the chief of the MAGA motion was there “had been very tremendous folks, on each side.” No condemnation of antisemitism was uttered from President Trump in these remarks.
Trump is aware of that there’s a sizable quantity of racists on this nation and lots of of them make up his base. He has frequently trafficked in racist, divisive tropes. Being in opposition to range, fairness and inclusion could not seem racist to Hammer. However to many within the MAGA motion, it’s a name to arms to take America to the Fifties, the place advantage was a white male first amongst equals.
Once you lock arms with the MAGA motion, you lock arms with the conspiracists that our president raises up and locations in our authorities. Hammer ought to perceive that MAGA could come for Jews some day quickly, because the Republican Celebration has a historical past of counting on the white supremacist wing as a dependable silent companion in election politics. The issue with the beast of white supremacy is whenever you invite it to dinner, it normally consumes all of the visitors.
Rene Childress, View Park
