Just as mainstream Republicans confronted right-wing antisemitism after the Charlottesville rally, the center-left must now confront left-wing antisemitism.
For three weeks now, the House of Republicans has not had a speaker, and the crazy eight Republicans who elected to blow up the party's only position of power by voting with the entire Democratic caucus have been unable to find a candidate as popular as Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted from the seat despite the support of 210 members of Congress. Since the California Republican's expulsion, the GOP has nominated three separate candidates, held three separate floor votes, and has failed all three times. Jim Jordan's most successful attempt at the top job netted just 200 votes on the floor, while Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries actually beat McCarthy's support twice. House Republicans moved on from the Ohio congressman to Tom Emmer, but after an internal whip count showing he didn't have the votes, the Minnesotan promptly dropped out of the circus.
Muslim activists in the United States are raising a fuss and warning that President Joe Biden is going to lose Muslim support for being too sympathetic to Jews who were slaughtered by antisemitic terrorists, and apparently, no one thinks that this would reflect poorly on Muslims.
Now that Republicans have a new nominee for speaker of the House, they should stop being so narrow-minded that they reject any form of help from Democrats to get their nominee actually elected on the House floor.