Candace Owens and Ana Kasparian agree on one thing: Jews are the evil entity that stands in the way of the redemption of the world.

Of course, they don’t put it quite like that. Three major points they covered in a discussion on Owens’ podcast included the idea that the Holocaust is used as a brainwashing tool, that Jewish chosenness means Jews can mass murder children without consequences and that Jews are pedophiles.

Astute observers of rising Jew hatred on the right and left have long pointed to the horseshoe effect in politics: As the movements travels further to the extremes on each side, the two sides begin to converge. The comparison to a horseshoe lies in the idea that rather than viewing politics as moving along a horizontal line, the two extremes curve toward each other, like the ends of a horseshoe.

This doesn’t mean that both sides share the same ideology, but that the methods, tactics and attitude toward governance are the same: a tendency toward authoritarianism, intolerance of dissent, an “us versus them” mentality and hatred of the establishment.

But while the right and left differ in their worldview, as the ends of the horseshoe curve toward each other, they find common ground on one thing: the age-old hatred of the Jewish people.

That’s how you get Owens on the extreme right and Kasparian on the extreme left chumming it up on a podcast. Because if there is one thing they can agree on, it’s that Holocaust education has brainwashed them into sympathy for the Jewish people.

The podcast opened with Owens admitting that she used to hate Kasparian.

“I’m like thrilled to have you. It’s just so funny because we hated each other,” she said.

Kasparian agreed and said that changed for her when Owens was fired from the Daily Wire for being “willing to call out a genocide” and for her changing attitude toward Muslims.

The conversation took a darker turn when the subject of the Holocaust came up.

“They’re brainwashing them [Jewish Americans] so young, right?” Owens said. “We are all subject to brainwashing.”

“Of course, of course,” Kasparian responded in agreement.

“That is the most important thing that I think I have come out of learning as like, how did I get brainwashed? I thought the same thing,” Owens went on. “I was watching the Holocaust movies. All of that is a part of your growing up, your brainwashing experience, what you’re learning in the classroom, your, who is the victim, you know, and who do you have to defend, who is being oppressed.”

Owens went on to explain that because of Holocaust brainwashing, Jewish Americans were primed to respond to Oct. 7 with the fear that this would trigger another Holocaust.

“It’s like priming you to be accepting of something that just goes against your core principles,” Kasparian agreed.

Throughout the exchange, Owens and Kasparian found that they were very much in agreement on this particular notion, as well as on the idea that accusing them of antisemitism, along with Tucker Carlson, is preposterous and silly.

They also agreed that the Jewish notion of chosenness means that Jews believe they can massacre children with impunity. And the clincher came at the end of the discussion: Jews are pedophiles.

“If you’re anti-pedophiles, if you are against what’s going on in Gaza, then we really are actually on the right side,” Owens said, saying that she and Kasparian are on the same side, the right side.

The hyperpolarization of Americans might prove to be deleterious to the health of the republic, but, as history proves, uniting over Jew hatred is the wrong solution.