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Nobody Knows Anything About ‘Electability’
Have we learned nothing? In 2016, very few political writers, myself emphatically included, thought Donald Trump would win the Republican nomination, let alone the presidency. Very few thought Bernie Sanders would win 23 states and 13 million votes in his Democratic-primary battle with Hillary Clinton.
Trump Stoked The Islamophobia That Led To The New Zealand Mass Murder
“If you find yourself using the tragedy in New Zealand to take backhanded swipes at conservatives in America,” tweeted Congressman, and rising GOP star, Dan Crenshaw on Friday, “then you really have no shame and you are part of the problem.”
“Conservatives” is a broad category. So let’s narrow the focus to the Trump administration. And let’s be blunt — no “backhanded swipes.”
Has this administration blessed and fueled the anti-Muslim bigotry that, in the hands of lunatics, becomes mass murder? Absolutely.