Florida saw a sharp increase in anti-Semitic incidents last year, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League, the New York-based organization that tracks anti-Semitic incidents and other extremist activity across the country. The state saw a 50% increase in anti-Semitic incidents in 2021 compared to the year before,
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University who specializes in the development of authoritarianism, writes that the current state of the Republican Party mirrors shifts from democracy to authoritarianism in other countries and other eras.