David Frum asking whether Trump's presidency presents a challenge by way of dropping (or shifting?) anti-semitism

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/has-trump-abandoned-anti-semitism/594619/

Seems highly doubtful to me but Frum posing the question as to whether Trump's version of the right, or key parts of it, will drop anti-semitism is his thinkpiece of late.

I suppose ... if I'm trying to throw a bone to this kind of sketchy idea, it's possible that the kinds of religious groups that back Trump are committed to a dispensationalist futurist eschatology in which End Times timelines require the United States to be tied to Israel that in that narrow sense there could be less room for anti-semitic sentiment in that part of the groups that support Trump.  That doesn't mean that more neo-pagan alt right elements would participate in that.  Thanks to the age of the internet there are secularist impulses that present the influence of the Abrahamic religions to be altogether negative.  That antisemitism has found a cozier home in the right in Anglo-American contexts doesn't mean it can't flourish in the left, as notes about antisemitism in Corbyn's orbit make an appearance in the Frum piece.

When I read these kinds of pieces like Frum's I'm reminded of Richard Taruskin's observation that in the history of Western Europe it appears that history keeps showing us that whether or the far left or the far right it hardly matters which of them it is, they somehow end up agreeing that it would be a great idea to make Europe or a European civilization a better place by getting rid of the Jews.  That's the grim punchline, that somehow in European history both the left and the right got up to this ghastly enterprise in spite of seeming to be at opposite ends of the political spectrum.

Taking this observation a bit more broadly ... it might be that what we're seeing is that groups that abject or reject the influence of the Abrahamic religions on the West (and by that I mean the trio of Judaism, Christianity and Islam) tend to fall prey at some point to a temptation to decide to enact policies in which the legacy of the Abrahamic religions is dealt with.  "It" can happen everywhere and the most dangerous thing Americans could do is imagine that it can't and, by extension, imagine that the reason it somehow can't is because of an ideological stance.  We've got enough history of antisemitism in both the left and the right to know better than to think it can erupt into violence on just one or the other side.  This really is a "both sides have done this" issue.