Scapegoats

Antisemitism is an act of toxic, narcissistic projection.

"Tucker Carlson" by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The writer James Kirchick recently published a comprehensive takedown of the execrable right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson in National Review.

As Kirchik notes, Carlson’s turn to antisemitism as well as other demented ideologies—such as World War II revisionism—has already become infamous, prompting talk of the “horseshoe effect” and the emergence of a “Woke Right.” Carlson and the extreme right in general, it is said, now have more in common with the extreme left than with the mainstream right. In the case of antisemitism, this certainly seems to be true.