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Michael Berkowitz's avatar

As far as I can tell, the House Judiciary Republicans didn't tweet in support of West's antisemitism. They tweeted beforehand in support of West, Trump and Musk and didn't take the tweet down in the wake of West's comments. This doesn't cover them in glory, but it's a far cry from the statement in this essay.

In general, making this about Republicans misses the point. To be sure, as a party they have won the race to the bottom, but there's no reason to think that Democrats have sunk less low because of some inherent sense of restraint and classic liberalism. These are problems of our current moment and the more we assign them to one side or the other the less able we are to deal with them.

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Wayne Karol's avatar

Walker, by his own admission, HELD A GUN TO HIS THEN-WIFE'S HEAD. That's MUCH worse than his hypocrisy on abortion or fatherhood, yet it gets much less attention. Why?

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