The only thing I would add to this is is that there are plenty of other reasons to despise Corbyn besides anti-Semitism. Incompetence, bullying, stupidity, sneering, undemocratic power grabs, naivety, ideological absolutism, moral deceit, etc. See, I can sympathise with Americans who felt the last election presented a lousy choice. And yet I can't for the life of me empathise with them. So far as I can tell Hillary would have just been more of the same, compared to Trump who is an actual monster. Whereas with Corbyn and May you've got the choice of two weirdly similar yet different kinds of awful novelty.
But this is different. Roll up, roll up, for the choice between supporting a clueless Conservative government that admits it is now stumbling towards no-deal by accident, and a Labour party brawling like drunks in the gutter while periodically screaming abuse at passersby. Come on, pick a side; the party scuttling round European capitals begging the allies we have just kicked in the teeth to save us from ourselves? Or the political movement seemingly paralysed by its own inability to get a grip on a small but furiously determined cadre of angry cranks whose long fumbling of this internal crisis hardly bodes well for dealing with external ones? It’s devil or deep blue sea, and the sea has some pretty dubious objects floating in it; a choice not so much depressing as utterly, utterly rage-inducing. If the people get the politics they deserve, then lord alone knows what we did to deserve this.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/02/uk-politics-rock-bottom-antisemitism-brexit
This is the global shit-sandwich of contemporary political consumption, everywhere. To be honest, while the condiments may vary from culture to culture and from place to place or from context to context, it's a shit sandwich no matter where you are. This is the zeitgeist.
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