This sounds very interesting. Can you post the full text of this tweet like TimT usually does?
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David Bernstein
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Who are the most and least antisemitic Americans by ideology? I happened across this very interesting and provocative paper by Fordham political scientist Jeffrey Cohen. He points out some important flaws in past research, and concludes: The least antisemitic Americans are mainstream liberals and conservatives. The most antisemitic are the extreme left, the extreme right, and low information voters, who skew surveys by often self-identifying as "moderate." Cohen's underlying thesis is also interesting. The mainstream elite in the US has been philo-semitic since the 1950s. People who have mainstream political views and take their cues from mainstream sources follow that mainstream consensus. But those who take their cues and get their news elsewhere are, obviously, less influenced by this consensus and thus much more likely to hold antisemitic views. Cohen doesn't get into this, but the upshot isn't a happy one for American Jews. Increasing numbers of Americans don't trust the "establishment" and take their cues and get their news from extremists or demagogues just looking for clicks. Consider how many young people rely on TikTok, of all things, for information. This helps explain the rise in antisemitism in recent years. It also helps explains why so many Jews are intuitively uncomfortable with Trump and his blowing up of the Republican mainstream, and more recently with Biden's failure to articulate and implement a defense of the Democratic mainstream from the far left
