Cynical, Nasty, and Nuts
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WILL SALETAN: Cynical, Nasty, and Nuts.
IāM A MODERATE. In 2018, I voted for Larry Hogan, Marylandās Republican governor. Four years later, when Republicans nominated an election denier to replace him, I voted for the Democratic nominee, Wes Moore. Give me a sensible conservative party, and Iāll consider it. But thatās not what Iām seeing in Congress or in this yearās Republican presidential debates.
Iād like to believe, for instance, that Republicans want a cautious but reasonable immigration policy. I agree with them that our border isnāt secure, that too many people are entering our country illegally, and that our asylum process is being abused. But Wednesdayās presidential debate showed that for too many Republicans, controlling illegal immigration is just the beginning. They want to curtail immigration in generalāeven during an obvious labor shortageāand part of their underlying motivation is bigotry or appeals to bigotry.
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CATHY YOUNG: To Bear Witness to Evil.
THE HOLOCAUSTāTHE TARGETED EXTERMINATION of Jews by Nazi Germany during World War IIāis such a canonical fact in Western history that we rarely think about the way its reality entered our cultural consciousness. Jason Lantzer, a historian at Butler University in Indiana, seeks to fill some of that gap in his new book Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaustāand along the way highlights some issues that are regrettably relevant today.
While Nazi Germanyās persecution of Jews was hardly a secret to anyone in the United States or Europe (certainly not after the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938), the progression, full scope, and the sadistic depravity of those crimes were not known during the warāand in any case, stopping the slaughter of Jews was not the highest priority for Allied leadership, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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Happy Friday! Hope you have some holiday cheer planned. Tonight, it was visiting the crazy Christmas lights, hot cocoa, and tabletop Sāmores.
I left my heart in San Fran Cheesyā¦ The Bulwark, specifically The Next Level crew is coming out to āThe Cityā next year, so save the date: January 18!
Dominion wins againā¦ They now will have access to the text message of Newsmax personnel.
Can McDonaldās break Starbucks and Dunkin? "what would happen if a McDonald's character from the 1980s that was part alien, part surfer, part robotā opened a restaurant? Enter CosMcs.
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Drew Carey kills itā¦ On his first appearance on the Johnny Carson show.
Adding this to my watch listā¦ Mr. & Mrs. Smith on Amazon.
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