One might think Trump is appealing to a similar mob. But the president is clearly no anti-Semite. Two of his lawyers over the years — Roy Cohn and Michael Cohen — were Jewish, as have been many of his other associates. His daughter converted to Judaism and his grandchildren have been raised in that faith.

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So what you have is not anti-Semitism by intent, but it is anti-Semitism nonetheless. The president, I guarantee you, knows nothing about Hungary’s history, nor that Adolf Eichmann managed to round up the country’s Jewish population and have about 437,000 of them murdered at Auschwitz. Trump probably knows little about Soros, either, because he knows little about almost everything. He is a genius at ignorance.

But the impulse is there. He is forever scapegoating. Instead of the cosmopolitan, rootless Jew, he has the cosmopolitan rootless media. Its members supposedly have the same values, the same unaccountability, the same hidden power, the same allegiance to nothing of value and the same contempt for those who do. This is anti-Semitism without Jews.