Anti-Semitic premillennialists harmonized rival Antichrist candidates by making Jews his allies

Evidence

Winrod was of two minds concerning the Antichrist. On the one hand, like many of his contemporaries, he saw Mussolini as a natural candidate. On the other, his intense anti-Semitism dictated that the Antichrist be a Jew. The two positions could be harmonized by making the Jews the Antichrist’s allies, or by manufacturing a Jewish ancestry for Mussolini. Unlike the typical dispensationalist, Winrod felt compelled to draw Jews into the Antichrist system. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 253

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to motif-completion dynamics in conspiracy scholarship and to how fixed beliefs select among rival hypotheses. — connects to: Anti-Semitic ideology fused contradictory charges into a single universalist enemy image — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1696

Broader Connections

• Anti-Semitic ideology fused contradictory charges into a single universalist enemy image #expands (0.85) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1696