The Kosmonaut illustrated this thesis with a snippet of The Blues Brothers movie, since top conservatives apparently resemble the Henry Gibson neo-Nazi buffoon in that epic: The names may change, but the framework is exactly the same as it was for Henry Ford. It's Christian Passion Play writ political, Mel Gibson Passion of the Christ paranoia in which the heroic Jesus Christians of Industry are nailed to their cross by the disbelieving Jewish communist liberals. The only difference? They don't say "Jew." They say "urban elite" or "cultural elite" or "San Francisco values" or "George Soros's moneylending ways". This is the same coded meaning structures at work today in the republican party. Henry Ford, himself such a rampant anti-Semite that he published excerpts from The Protocols of Zion in The Dearborn Independent in the 1920s (basically the Koch of his day), believed that Jews were intent on taking down industry through communist redistribution of wealth. This rampant anti-Semitic paranoia was that Jews were "redistributing wealth" to take down the true heroic Ayn Rand titans of industry, which were, of course, the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, the Henry Fords, etc. At the Daily Kos blog on Wednesday came a rant by the blogger WinSmith against "rampant anti-Semitic paranoia" being central to the conservative movement, as allegedly demonstrated by "know-nothing reactionary racists and clueless buffoons like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin" riling up the ignorant masses: