MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow might as well have been standing in front of a corkboard with newspaper clippings and red twine during Monday’s edition of her eponymous show. The ranting Maddow opened her once-a-week show with an over 25-minute screed where she stitched together a bizarre argument that tied the recent increase in anti-Semitism in the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan (not the pro-Hamas crowd), to an anti-Semitic Army general in 1939, and ultimately to former President Trump’s recent campaign rhetoric.
Maddow started the show fairly measured as she rightfully decried the recent surge in anti-Semitic incidents across the country ranging from vandalism of synagogues to a rash of bomb threats against them. But things took a turn when, instead of blaming the October 7 terrorist attack and the extremists supporting Hamas, she seemed to link them to white…