 Rosenbaum asked Goldhagen about Richard Levy's 1975 book "The Downfall of the Anti-Semitic Political Parties in Imperial Germany" which traced the decline of the "völkisch" parties in the early 20th century until they were all but wiped out in the 1912 "Reichstag" election.Goldhagen replied that voting for or against the wildly antisemitic "völkisch" parties had nothing to do with antisemitic "feeling", and that people could still hate Jews without voting for the "völkisch" parties.In 2006, the American columnist Jonah Goldberg argued that "Goldhagen's thesis was overstated but fundamentally accurate.