Electoral antisemitism could be mere vote-getting without becoming core ideology.

Evidence

Their antisemitism remained without consequence; the decades when Lueger ruled Vienna were actually a kind of golden age for the Jews. No matter how far their propaganda occasionally went in order to get votes, they never could have proclaimed with Schoenerer and the Pan-Germanists that “they regarded anti-semitism as the mainstay of our national ideology, as the most essential expression of genuine popular conviction and thus as the major national achievement of the century.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 163

Categorization

  • XREF: The distinction between tactical campaign rhetoric and ‘mainstay of national ideology’ antisemitism maps onto the vocabulary of ideological vs. instrumental antisemitism used in later Islamophobia scholarship.