2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What role does anti-semitism play among those opposing Bernie Sanders? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in Europe and other areas, and we do see signs here. I suspect, though, that Bernie's popularity among many of the far left has probably retarded its resurgence here in America. He's not a religious Jew and supports the rights of Palestinians to exist, and no doubt that has helped in holding back attacks. So my suspicion is very little.
America's far right is especially parched, fertile ground. For too long Christian Zionism has encouraged them to embrace Jews because the Jews are supposedly going to be wiped out fighting Islam for the Christians, who will then sweep in and retake the Holy Lands for the Christianity. They've been waiting too long for that happy new holocaust, though, and this has been hard on the poor things, bless their hearts as we say here in the Deep South, so I for one am expecting a major backlash. But even though some crossed over to vote for him as a hostile maneuver against our expected nominee, how many of them would have voted for him in November? Virtually none, so no real harm there either.
Fwiw, I do believe the antisemitism absent from the Democratic primary would have played a big role in the GE, both as a tool used to sway as many conservative indies away from the Democratic alternative as possible and of course as acting out by millions of strong social/religious conservatives, who'd leap eagerly to attack this elderly commie Jew out to destroy America because that's how they are and what they do.