You donât measure whether somebody is anti-semitic based on data, pal.
Anti-gay marriage campaigners didnât run on an explicitly homophobic campaign, because they knew they wouldnât get away with it. But that doesnât change the fact that large elements within that campaign used homophobic tactics.
Nigel Farage did not run on an explicitly racist platform. It doesnât change the fact that heâs a thinly veiled bigot.
The EDL claim not to run on an explicitly racist platform. But we all know that theyâre racist.
The BNP did the same. Marine Le Pen does it.
Republicans since the 1960s donât run on explicitly racist campaigns. But the Southern Strategy was designed to exploit racism by cloaking it in slogans like âstatesâ rightsâ. The birther nonsense claimed to not be racist, but was transparently racist.
Trump actually did run on an explicitly anti-Muslim platform, because he rightly bet he could get away with it.
He didnât run on an explicitly anti-semitic platform, because he knew he wouldnât get away with doing that. He cloaked his anti-semitism behind slogans, dog whistles, and entirely unconvincing disavowals of support from racist and anti-semitic bigots. Just enough plausible deniability to fool fools.
And convincing enough to fool you.
You donât measure these things by âdataâ.
You measure them by what you see and hear and from knowing the lessons of history - which you so clearly donât know.