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How Did ‘I’ll Fight the Jews’ Become a Selling Point For Democrats?

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Democrats hate fascists. You can tell by how they constantly denounce fascists, and Democrats wouldn’t lie, would they?

That’s a rhetorical question; Leftists always denounce everyone else for doing what it is they are doing. It’s much easier to use the fascistic tactics of their progressive forefathers when you are screaming that you oppose it, as the short attention span voting Democrats can’t connect the dots.

But rather than “fighting fascism,” a disturbingly large percentage of Democrats are running on opposing Jews.

They don’t come right out and say it – there are even enough Democrats who’d recognize the irony of the people insisting they hate fascism engaging in the same attacks that the Nazis did – so they don’t say “Jooos,” they say AIPAC.

The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee is not, as many people on the left and the right claim, “Israeli”; it is made up of Americans who happen to be Jewish. But if people start screaming about THE JEWS!!!, too many people would be able to connect those dots, so they go with AIPAC.

It's weird how CAIR – the Council on American-Islamic Relations – doesn’t draw the same ire. CAIR has literal ties to a lot of terrorist organizations, spews anti-Semitic and anti-American rhetoric, and the left has no issues with them. But the Jews!

There isn’t a “progressive” Democrat who isn’t running on opposing AIPAC. Noted woman abuser Graham Platner can’t give a speech without ranting about AIPAC – he wants to beat them like they’re his girlfriend. U.S. Democrat Reps. Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Ilhan Omar (MN-5), and all the “Justice” Democrats from the Democratic Socialists of America are plagiarizing Joseph Goebbels in their speeches.

The Justice Democrats sent out a fundraiser from New York City Congressional candidate and noted racist Darializa Avila Chevalier, claiming the Democrat incumbent she’s challenging “keeps putting special interests (mega corporations and the real estate lobby) and his biggest donor (AIPAC) ahead of our community's basic needs.”

He’s putting the Jews ahead of “our community,” which is code for black people, in this case, because that’s how Democrats roll.

Another email, this one signed by noted racist, former Congressman, and noted moron who claimed to not understand what a fire alarm was, Jamaal Bowman, wrote “Darializa is tired of the people who are supposed to be representing us taking money from AIPAC, MAGA donors, and the corporate lobbies that are pricing us out of our own city.”

There’s “us” and “our own city” in this as code for skin color, but talking about the invasion of illegal aliens taking jobs or Democrats seeking to grant them citizenship to cancel out votes of Americans is “racist.”

These leftists truly are gross.

Then there’s Abdul El-Sayed, the fake doctor running for the Democrat nomination for Senate in my home state of Michigan. In one eight-paragraph fundraising email, Abdul mentioned AIPAC 6 times. That’s close to obsession-level crazy, like Jews might want to consider a restraining order.

“I know it’s late, but I can’t stop thinking about these AIPAC ads,” the email sent at 9:07 pm opens (late?). “In case you missed it, AIPAC-aligned groups have unleashed $16 million worth of ads to try and prop up their preferred candidate. I know. It’s a lot to wrap your head around. But can I be brutally honest with you? I think we can still win.”

How is that “a lot to wrap your head around”? And is there anyone running for anything who tells supporters, “I think we’re gonna get our asses kicked, but donate anyway so we can have a killer election night consolation party!”?

Of course not, that’s stupid.

“It comes down to whether we have enough grassroots power to run our own ads, reach voters, and control our own narrative before AIPAC controls it for us,” it concludes, because Jews control the media, naturally.

The left has always demonized someone – Hitler pioneered the concept of scapegoating a group of people for all the problems people face to stir up rage and motivate the masses, and progressives are continuing the tradition today. In fact, the circle is complete, as the progressives of 1930s Germany (and in the US, at the time) hated Jews, and they’re back to it now.

The saddest part isn’t that progressive politicians hate Jews; they always have. The saddest part is that it works on so many people.

Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.