This article is worth reading for its firsthand account of the people involved in the fascist uprising, but this particular detail really struck me. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists

This characterization of antifa as "clever" struck me in particular, because it resonates with the stereotype of the "clever Jew."

In anti-Semitism, Jews are everything at once — they are nosy and prying, but also standoffish and clannish. They are sinister masterminds but also base creatures who cannot control their impulses.

Sartre described anti-Semitism as a negative passion immune to rationality. I would argue that in right-wing discourse the Jewish boogeyman — both weak and strong, prominent and hidden, pious and faithless — has been joined, if not replaced, by antifa and socialists/communists.

Why this addition/replacement? Because of their rhetorical need to prop up supposedly "Judeo-Christian civilization." This is why people describe Qanon and other right-wing conspiracy theories as anti-Semitic: it has all the tropes of classic anti-Semitism except its targets.

remember that anti-Semites blamed Jews for both capitalism and communism — modern right-wingers are infuriated at successful tech corporations -and- the government officials who seek to regulate them, but they usually blame socialism/communism/Satanic pedophiles, not Jews.

I think this is because Christian evangelicals have decided that Israel is essential to their eschatological project, but also because people like Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Michael Savage are essential to their cause, so they can't be explicitly anti-Semitic.

of course I'm not the first person to point all of this out, but that description of "clever antifa" really drove this home for me https://www.good.is/proud-boys-new-antisemitism