Letters to the Editor: MAGA ‘has always had an underbelly of racism and antisemitism’

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To the editor : In his attempt to save the MAGA coalition, contributing writer Josh Hammer refuses to recognize that this movement has always had an underbelly of racism and antisemitism ( “Provocateurs are trying to use antisemitism to splinter the MAGA coalition,” Oct. 10). How quickly he erases the tiki-torch bearers of Nazi and confederate flags at Charlottesville, Va., chanting “Jews will not replace us.”

The leadership we got in response to that day from the leader of the MAGA movement was there “were very fine people, on both sides.” No condemnation of antisemitism was uttered from President Trump in those remarks .

Trump knows that there is a sizable amount of