Rick Perlstein
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"O, let America be America again The land that never has been yet..."
Public authorities ginning up this much hate, ere long we can expect pogroms.
Fun fact: about a year after 9/11, George W. Bush gave a speech at Mt. Rushmore with his podium angled so he would look like the fifth face.
I'm kind of proud that the book I have coming out in a year brings the receipts to prove that anti-left Democrats have literally articulated a preference for losing over winning the wrong way--with economic populism--since the 1980s. It's fun to be proven correct.
To be fair, here's Mrs. P. in effect on the other side of the building.
I feel like this might be the day a certain country jumps the shark.
This frog fixing to become the world's biggest frog by eating up all the little sunfishes stuck in the spillway. Check out how he treats the competition!
If agenda-setting elite political journalism did its job informing Americans what they need to know to carry out their responsibilities as citizens, stories would discuss, high up, the GOP's role in the crime, in advocating Islamophobia and criminalizing public expression of Islamic faith.
One imagines that if was a synagogue in San Diego was was shot up by two terrorists with records of what the police chief called "hate speech," killing five, that the New York Times--this is while the situation was ongoing!--would find space for it as one of their lead stories. Mosque, who cares?
This is exactly what Southern segregationists and, before that, slavery defenders, said, that relations with our Negroes were exemplary before those outside agitators stirred things up.