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I recall, a couple of years ago, watching a video on YouTube starring this group of young women defending Vichy France, a fascist dictatorship. The format was historical re-enactment, with the Vichy news network attempting to persuade the French public of the danger and lies of the British. The video ends with the network having been proven right after the girls, sitting at home, are bombed by the British. Naturally shocked and horrified at this revisionist, pro-fascist, anti-British propaganda, I visited their channel. There was one other video. I watched it. It accused President Donald Trump of homophobia.
Isn't that interesting? The left frequently calls Donald Trump a fascist, while these fascist defenders call him a homophobe! They defend a fascist dictatorship, and they happen to dislike President Trump. (I just wish I could find the channel and videos again.)
On the white supremacist, neo-Nazi social media site Stormfront, a social group was formed within the first 100 days of Trump's presidency called, "Trump the Zionist." Its description reads, "Corporations first, jobs last. We will make the dollar weak again with yuge debt! I will fill the Goldman Sachs swamp and make bombastic deals with Russia Iran and North Korea. China is not a currency manipulator and the European Union is not obsolete! Who's gonna pay for the wall? Nobody!" There is a photo of Trump's family with a yellow Star of David above each Jewish member. Across the bottom of the photo are random pictures of Trump's supposedly Jewish friends and allies. As of September 2019, there are 125 members (a lot for a white supremacist website).
The notoriously anti-Semitic 2019 Women's March, whose leaders have ties to Louis Farrakhan, was virulently anti-Zionist. It unsettled even progressive Jewish Democrats so much that a separate, more pro-Jewish march was held simultaneously, March On. Linda Sarsour, co-founder of the Women's March, once blamed the "Jewish media" for claims of anti-Semitism. Louis Farrakhan, associate of the Women's March organizers, has called Jews "Satanic" and compared them to pigs and dogs. Several "Palestinian" activists were present at the march. Jewish women, however, were either implicitly or explicitly discouraged from attending. Even the mainstream media condemned the Women's March for anti-Semitism. The Women's March has always been, of course, radically anti-Trump.
The Jew-hating Squad openly opposes the existence of the State of Israel. In fact, they themselves have ties to the anti-Semitic 2019 Women's March. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Presley, the supposedly less anti-Semitic of the four, were actually present at the march, despite revelations of anti-Semitism. All four have ties to the march or to march organizers.
But that's not all with regard to the Squad. Ilhan Omar once tweeted that AIPAC was responsible for increased support of Israel in the United States; the tweet was praised by white identitarian James Allsup. Earlier, she tweeted that support for Israel and Zionism was, "all about the Benjamins, baby!" Later, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were barred from Israel for their anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. In planning for the trip, the Congresswomen referred to the entire Jewish State as "Palestine," and planned to meet with BDS and similar groups to openly discuss the destruction of the state of Israel. The mainstream media accused Trump of getting them banned from the country, because he tweeted that letting anti-Jewish people who want to destroy the country into Israel would "show great weakness." Even if Trump's tweets influenced Netanyahu's decision, it is a good thing that these Jew-hating Congresswomen were barred. Practicing Jewish Zionist and mainstream conservative Ben Shapiro praised the decision with considerable enthusiasm, and vigorously condemned anti-Semites Omar and Tlaib for their hatred and bigotry. Afterwards, the women shared a cartoon from a Holocaust denier who placed second in Iran's cartoon contest, which depicted the two with Trump and Netanyahu's hands over their mouths, conveniently wearing blue so that their arms formed the Israeli flag with a Star of David in the center. Jewish silencing of critics and criticism is a typical anti-Semitic trope. Ironically, the Squad has constantly railed against Trump for his alleged racism, misogyny, bigotry, and xenophobia. AOC compared ICE detention centers under Trump to "concentration camps," an assessment which Ilhan Omar agreed with.
Despite the claims of the left, Trump is a unifier. He unifies moderates and populists in support of him, and he unifies hateful, bigoted extremists in opposition to him (their vote is not necessary, anyway). Even those on the left have given him credit, as classical liberals frequently do, and even Van Jones has done. But he is fittingly opposed by hateful, bigoted demagogues, "on many sides. On many sides."