Antisemitism and the Left

The right wing frequently talks in end-times/flight 93 rhetoric about the left.  But what exactly has the progressive/lib/Dem left actually accomplished in the past 4 decades that has got them so riled up? The ACA? Gay marriage? Tax rates have hardly changed. Regulations are hardly different. Unions still weak.
 
Immigration policy about the same.  Sure, we've moved vaguely left in some cultural areas, but nothing groundbreaking.  Rather, the RW seems less to be reacting to changes than to its own overblown and paranoid hype funneled through extremist interpretations of a reality that hasn't changed much.
 
On race, sexuality, immigration, trade, taxes, regulation, etc. - hell, they have an extremist RW SCOTUS and just overturned Roe - the facts have changed less than the magnitude of their collective freakout.
 
Now, surely there is a lot to complain about in modern society.  But so much of it is as much if not more so a result of RW policy.  The 93 Manifesto decries "Ever-higher taxes and ever-deteriorating services and infrastructure. Inability to win wars against tribal, sub-Third-World foes."  Are taxes really higher?

 
Maybe low marginal rates have something to do with why our infrastructure is so shitty?  Forever wars?  Was it the left who was pushing for them?  The rich have gotten richer while everyone else's wages have stagnated.  Again, marginal rates?
 
 
They also complain about trade/globalization and decimation of manufacturing. I'm sorry, which ideology puts the free market/individual property rights above all else? If a corporation wants to close a factory to pay workers in Asia cents on the dollar, wouldn't it be Big Government to stop them?
 
And here we see the split between the Classical Liberal RW and the NatSoc RW.  But this split isn't responding to a left.  It's a social-right/economic-left (latter) vs. social-left/economic right (former).  The NSRW derives much of its fury from the CLRW who they decry as "Rhinos", and is overwhelming focused on social, not economic issues.  Immigration, DEI, Antifa, Abortion, LGBT - these are race/sex/religion issues.  (Immigration gets vaguely tied to "jobs", but due to sparse evidence of economic impact, it is mainly cast as a cultural/racial problem). 
 
So, with the "browning" and de-Christianizing of America, a story about white religious privilege (to be centered, to be in control) is unspooled.  MAGA evokes a bucolic mid-20th century in which white Christian men were in charge.  And yet economically, marginal tax rates were sky high compared to today, with vastly less wealth inequality.   It was, in a sense, a NatSoc dream.
 
Ironically, however, it was in this period that the roots of MAGA were at their most pure in the places like screeds of the John Birch Society and McCarthyism, even as White Supremacy was the law of the land, and the government was building interstates across the country.
 
And antisemitism.  There seems something about the stereotype of the Jew that illustrates perfectly the paradox of the NSRW mind.  On the one hand, it represents a threat to WASP dominance, but on the other an example of economic success.  It represents a cultural threat in the form of lost status, and an economic threat in the form of the exploitation that comes with the exponential power of capital accumulation.  The NSRW has always been about a marriage of cultural hegemony with government preferences.
 
Antisemitism provides a perfect foil for a conservative who wants his cake and to eat it too.  As Jews have historically been left-leaning (for obvious reasons), their stereotyping serves as a model that has been transposed onto "liberals" and the "Democrat" party.  George Soros, the "Globalists", "Cultural Marxists", and "Cosmopolitans" hardly pretend to hide this move.  These could just as easily be replaced with "left-coast elites", "blue states", and "fake Americans".
 
So, can they point to LW policy that is out of control and the cause for all of our problems?  Only so far as German Jews were blamed for the same.  Instead of real debates about economic policy, which are difficult, nuanced, and not always intuitive, a paranoid stereotype that scapegoats individuals is much easier.
 
In 1889, Ferdinand Kronawetter called antisemitism the socialism of idiots.  When the NSRW seems to be attacking the left, this is what is really going on.

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