Antisemitism is rising on the right, and the playbook being used to radicalize young conservative men is older and darker than most people realize. In this episode of The Jenny Beth Show, host Jenny Beth Martin sits down with James Lindsay — mathematician, host of the New Discourses podcast, and one of the most prominent critics of Marxism, critical theory, and identity politics in America — to expose how century-old propaganda is being recycled to divide the MAGA movement from within. Lindsay walks through the real history of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a document forged by the Russian secret police more than 120 years ago, and shows how the same conspiracy tropes keep resurfacing — this time fed to young men through podcasts, TikTok, and X. He explains how lines pulled almost word-for-word from Hitler’s writing and from communist literature are reaching American kids who have no idea what they’re actually absorbing, and how foreign actors like Russia, China, and Iran weaponize social media to turn Americans against one another. Jenny Beth and James also dig into the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the danger of normalizing political violence, the legitimate debate over America’s foreign commitments, and why the constitutional, distinctly American answer beats every radical European import. This is a clear-eyed, history-grounded conversation about guarding your mind in a propaganda battle space — and taking personal responsibility for what you let in. Learn more and take action at teapartypatriots.org and jennybethshow.com.
James Lindsay is a mathematician, author, and host of the New Discourses podcast. He is one of America’s leading critics of Marxism, critical theory, and identity politics, and is currently producing a long-running series reading directly from Nazi primary sources to bust historical revisionism circulating online.
Jenny Beth Martin is co-founder of the Tea Party movement and Chairman of Tea Party Patriots Action, representing three million grassroots conservative activists.
00:17 — Welcome and the rise of antisemitism on the left and right
09:20 — What “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” actually are
15:24 — The same conspiracy lies recycled across decades
17:05 — How agitators exploit unmet expectations
21:59 — The Soviet origins of the modern anti-Zionism campaign
22:32 — The real history of Israel’s founding and the legal Zionist endeavor
30:25 — Why the left twists every fact against Western civilization
34:07 — Russia’s strategy for dividing a cohesive movement
39:28 — How Israel became the wedge to split MAGA
44:27 — Charlie Kirk, assassination culture, and critical pedagogy
53:08 — History as teacher and the American way forward
56:28 — Hitler’s critique of parliaments and American constitutional design
59:12 — Finding the American solution, not the Marxist one
01:01:00 — Guarding your mind in a propaganda battle space
01:12:22 — Legitimate policy debate versus antisemitic conspiracy
01:16:35 — Developing the instinct to tune out the cranks
01:20:34 — Everyone makes mistakes — repent and move forward
Links mentioned: New Discourses Podcast, teapartypatriots.org, jennybethshow.com