“For most of my adult life, antisemites — with exceptions like Pat Buchanan and Mel Gibson — have lacked status in America,” Goldberg writes. Really? Al Sharpton, kingmaker and presidential “go-to man,” must have slipped Goldberg’s mind, even though she is a regular guest on his MSNBC program. Time does not erase the fact that this man spearheaded riots and fueled insidious antisemitism and racism that resulted in Jews and others being killed. Has Goldberg ever asked Sharpton to explain his views on “diamond merchants” of Crown Heights – where, as it happens, a Jewish man was brutally beaten just this summer? Perhaps her privilege has shielded her from that history, as well.

Now, of course, simply because the liberal establishment embraces Sharpton — or Barack Obama’s mentor was a notorious Jew-hater, or a smiling Nancy Pelosi posed on magazine covers with a woman who says Jews can hypnotize the world for “evil,” or the Nation of Islam’s bigotry is rationalized in the august pages of The Atlantic, or anti-“Zionists” attack Hillel buildings on college campuses — does not excuse Trump’s meeting with Ye X and Opie Himmler. Either the former president doesn’t care who he has dinner with, or he does care, or he doesn’t know – none of which are good options. Why anyone would want to go another four years dealing with that circus is beyond me.

For every Paul Gosar, though, there is an Ilhan Omar. For every Marjorie Taylor Greene there is a Rashida Tlaib … and a Maxine Waters, who has no problem hanging out with the leader of the Nation of Islam, and a Danny Davis, who is a member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee and who maintains that the religious leader who called Hitler a “very great man” and compared Jews to “termites,” was an “outstanding human being.” It is not happenstance that the leadership of the once-celebrated Women’s March — organizers of the largest one-day protest in American history — are anti-Jewish conspiracists. For Goldberg, that reality was not a tragic portend of the mainstreaming of hate, but merely “heartbreaking.” There is plenty of cowardice to go around.