Trump's lies about Soros funding the caravan are a further mainstreaming of an alt-right conspiracy theory: Jewish financiers are scheming to replace you with brown people 1/ nytimes.com/2018/10/20/wor…
It's essentially indistinguishable from what Steve King told a racist, anti-Semitic Austrian website 2/ huffingtonpost.com/entry/iowa-rep…
And it's a reminder that racism and anti-Semitism always go hand in hand. Most American Jews seem to get that, and also get that the modern GOP is the party of racism. That's why Jews backed Clinton by almost 50 points 3/ pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016…
And people like Sheldon Adelson aren't just gross and evil; they're also fools. If the people he backs consolidate power, all his wealth and bribery won't save him from the anti-Semitic wave they'll unleash. 4/
