Julia Ioffe reports on a Puck/Echolon poll (boldface mine):

When Peter sent me the Puck/Echelon poll, he urged me to take a look at the results for the questions on antisemitism and the pro-Palestine protests on college campuses. (Yes, now you see why I’m writing about a domestic political poll.) Well, I dug into the crosstabs, as they say, and the results were extremely interesting—but also kind of insane…

Here’s what really shocked me, though: Americans, at least those polled by Echelon, who see antisemitism rising everywhere think Donald Trump would be better at fighting it than Joe Biden, 48 percent to 41 percent. Here, too, the dynamic was similar: whiteness, maleness, conservativeness, and lower education translated to trusting Trump to fight Jew-hatred. No surprise there.

But, and you may want to sit down for this, among 18- to 34-year-olds, 55 percent said Trump was better than Biden to take on antisemitism. Just 34 percent thought the incumbent president was better equipped to handle it, despite all his speeches, statements, and task forces.

Talk about a lack of political memory. The rise in antisemitism that so many Americans are seeing now did not start with the Gaza solidarity encampments at Columbia or U.S.C. It did not even start on October 7. This relentless rise started a decade ago, with Trump’s entry into presidential politics. His campaign emboldened the alt-right, who waged relentless war on his behalf against Jewish liberal journalists. And if it wasn’t on his behalf, he famously said nothing to condemn his antisemitic fans or tell them to stand down. In fact, when they rallied in Charlottesville, in 2017, and chanted “Jews will not replace us,” Trump said there were very fine people among them. He himself constantly invoked Jews and money, Jews’ alleged disloyalty to America because their first loyalty would always be to the Jewish state; he flirted with QAnon, whose belief system (if you could call it that) is based on something eerily similar to the blood libel; and he refused to denounce David Duke. That’s a short list…

Which is why it’s no coincidence that, according to the A.D.L., the first year of Trump’s presidency coincided with the largest one-year rise in antisemitism that the group had ever recorded. Ever. How in the world is the old antisemite in chief going to be the anti-antisemite in chief the second time around?

I get that 18-year-olds were 11 when Charlottesville happened. But what’s the 34-year-olds’ excuse? They were, after all, 27. I generally hate when older people kick down at younger generations, forgetting when their cohort was the target of the exact same complaints and eye-rolling that they’re dishing out now. But this specific result makes me want to shake some people who are not much younger than me and ask them what in the actual fuck they are thinking.

The reality is most people only read the headlines, so ‘Republicans (and by extension, Trump) support Israel’–and thus they can’t be antisemitic (yes, I know…)–is what they get. If you want to remind people that Trump et alia are antisemites, you have to tell them that. Over and over again. And doing the ‘my good Republican colleague’ bullshit doesn’t help.

This concludes today’s installment of ‘professional Democrats suck at their jobs.’