Is Holocaust denial a disease of the right or the left? The mainstream media would have you believe that denying the Holocaust is akin to white supremacy and, therefore, a problem of the extreme right.
But a YouGov poll from Friday tells a different story.
YouGov asked 1,500 adults if they agreed or disagreed that “the Holocaust is a Myth.” Ten percent of Democrats agreed with that statement, double the number of Republicans.
Ideologically, 7% of liberals denied the Holocaust and 6% of conservatives.
It’s worse for Democrats in big cities. Fourteen percent of Democrats in urban areas denied the Holocaust while just 5% of Republicans in rural strongholds denied it.
Seven percent of Biden supporters deny the Holocaust while 6% of Trump voters did. Overall, 11% of Democrats denied the Holocaust while just 8% of Republicans denied it.
The results reflect an evolution from 1962 when President Reagan, Senator Goldwater — whose father was Jewish — and the publisher of National Review, William F. Buckley, met at Palm Beach, Florida, to strategize against radicalism.
New York Sun:
At the Breakers resort, Reagan, Buckley, and Goldwater resolved to denounce…
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