When the horrendous news of last night’s shooting in DC came in, my husband and I were in the middle of the final episode of HBO’s The Plot Against America. Based on Philip Roth’s novel of the same name, the miniseries chronicles a hypothetical scenario in which the United States does not join the Allies during World War II and instead slowly spirals from minor antisemitic aggression into mass-scale pogroms. The tragic news of the cold-blooded murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, snapped us out of that fictional dystopian scenario and into a real-world one. We would have to be blind not to see the parallel.

Anyone paying attention is aware by now of the slow-moving coup happening in our culture—not just in recent months, but for years, and especially in the 18 months since October 7. From elite institutions on the left to populist media outlets on the right, the normalization and escalation of antisemitism........

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