Pop culture and fashion magazine Vanity Fair raised eyebrows with a Tuesday headline comparing Twitter owner Elon Musk with former KKK Grand Wizard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-kkk-grand-wizard-david-duke-omar-most-ryan-saavedra" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Duke</a> – all in an effort to undermine Florida Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sunny-hostin-trashes-desantis-over-marine-vet-fundraiser-2-million-for-killing-a-young-black-man" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> ahead of his 2024 presidential bid.
&#8220;Report: Ron DeSantis Will Formally Announce His 2024 Bid With Elon Musk, Because Apparently David Duke Wasn’t Available,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/ron-desantis-elon-musk-2024-announcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inflammatory headline</a> splashed across the page in bold type read, followed by the subhead, &#8220;Launching with the Twitter owner is certainly a choice.&#8221;
The article, written by Bess Levin, continued in that same vein right from the beginning: &#8220;He is said to be planning to formally jump into the 2024 race during a conversation on Twitter with Elon Musk, because apparently other neo-Nazi sympathizers weren’t available.&#8221;
Levin went on to further attack Musk, alleging that his attempts to make Twitter a haven for &#8220;free speech&#8221; have given cover to a rise in white supremacy instead. Referencing ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson&#8217;s plan to reinvent his own show on the platform – despite Musk&#8217;s statement that he had not made any deal with Carlson – she asserted that Musk was actively giving a home to &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;
She then pivoted to DeSantis, suggesting that Musk&#8217;s alleged alignment with the &#8220;far right&#8221; might be attractive to the Florida governor – and lest her audience misses the implied message throughout, she concluded with the outright statement: &#8220;Anyway, just as a reminder, a DeSantis presidency is as terrible a prospect as a Trump one.&#8221;
Musk&#8217;s friend David Sacks, who is set to moderate the discussion between the billionaire entrepreneur and imminent presidential candidate, shared a screenshot of the headline along with the comment, &#8220;The media has lost its mind.&#8221;
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Former National Security Council staffer Joshua Steinman noted that the left-leaning media coverage of DeSantis was no less dishonest when attacking DeSantis than it had been in attacking former President Donald Trump.
&#8220;This was what it was like for four years working for President Trump. No good deed went un-spun by the Washington Press Corps. No matter what we did. We could have brought peace to the Middle East* and they would have called us traitors**,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1661256732633608197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, adding, &#8220;*We did this, **And they did this.&#8221;
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And while a number of others responded to the headline in the same way, others pointed out the fact that the more unhinged the left-leaning media became, the more average Americans would gravitate toward messages that reflected sanity.
&#8220;DeSantis and his team very, very much appreciate these headlines and would like as many more as you are capable of offering during the primary, MSM,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1661334246571532288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one noted</a>.
&#8220;Elon Musk is a 70-30 or an 80-20 issue in America. He might be really unpopular among the handful of people who are just now signing up for Mastodon accounts, but for the rest of the country he’s still the guy who builds rockets and futuristic cars and has fun with Joe Rogan,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1661325168805806082" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another added</a>.

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Vanity Fair Compares Elon Musk To David Duke In Low-Blow Attack On DeSantis

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President Vladimir Putin stunned much of the West when he offered his supposed justification for launching a “special military operation” in Ukraine: The country is run by Nazis, he said. “We will seek to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, as well as bring to trial those who perpetrated numerous bloody crimes against civilians,” Putin <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843">explained</a> in a nationally televised speech on February 24.
Near the end of his speech, he directly appealed to the Ukrainian military, “Your fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not fight the Nazi occupiers and did not defend our common Motherland to allow today’s neo-Nazis to seize power in Ukraine.” Similarly, when “Good Morning America” Host George Stephanopoulos challenged Russian Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov for describing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a puppet of the Ukrainian Nazi movement, Lavrov <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IDJ2yBcCrc">replied</a>, “I think the Nazis and neo-Nazis manipulate him, otherwise it is hard to account for how President Zelensky can preside … over a society where neo-Nazism is rife.”
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Russian foreign policy hands and media spokespeople have repeatedly echoed the charge that Ukraine is a fascistic, ethnonationalist nation since the beginning of the latest hostilities. Why do Russian officials continually use that term? Is this mere gaslighting, or does Ukraine have ties to Nazi ideology — and, if so, what about Russia?
There has not been a Nazi nation since 1945
Let’s begin with the obvious: Ukraine is not a Nazi nation. There has not been a Nazi nation since 1945. President Zelensky is Jewish and lost relatives in the Holocaust. Zelensky has comprehensively rebutted the charge that he or his fellow Ukrainians are Nazi sympathizers. “Could a people who lost more than 8 million lives in the battle against Nazism support Nazism?” he <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-jewish-president-volodymyr-zelenskiy-how-could-i-be-a-nazi-vladimir-putin-war/">asked</a>. “How can I be a Nazi? Explain it to my grandfather, who went through the entire war in the infantry of the Soviet army and died a colonel in an independent Ukraine.”
With that said, of course, Russia and Ukraine have a long, complex history intertwining with one another and the Jewish people for more than a millennium. Ethnic and other prejudices ran strong in the area. During World War II, after decades of Bolshevik oppression, some Ukrainians such as Stepan Bandera collaborated with the Nazis. But many opposed both Nazi and Communist occupation.
Unfortunately, ethnic and religious tensions did not end with either occupation. In the early 2000s, one of Ukraine’s largest universities — the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (sometimes known by its Ukrainian acronym, MAUP) — set up a teaching gig and, in September <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060217005240/http:/www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_america_updates/individuals/david_duke/david_duke_20051103.htm">2005</a>, <a href="https://momentmag.com/the-mysterious-tale-of-a-ukrainian-universitys-anti-semitic-crusade/">conferred</a> a <a href="https://davidduke.com/david-duke-achieves-doctorate-in-ukraine/">Ph.D.</a> on David Duke. Duke’s thesis became the kernel of his book “<a href="https://archive.org/details/JewishSupremacism_203/page/n1/mode/2up">Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening on the Jewish Question</a>.”
International observers raise the greatest concern over a Ukrainian militia known as the Azov Battalion, which wears Nazi-era insignia — including the swastika — on its uniforms. Its founder, Andriy Biletsky, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/13/ukraine-far-right-national-militia-takes-law-into-own-hands-neo-nazi-links">said</a> Ukraine’s purpose is to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade … against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior people]” — a statement that is not Naziesque but Nazism. White nationalists from <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/ukraine-deutsche-soeldner-heuern-bei-rechtsextremem-freiwilligenbataillon-an-a-1177400.html">around the world</a> have <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/fighting-russia-ukraine-sadly-appeals-far-right-extremists-n1290901">traveled</a> to Ukraine to learn the art of warfare firsthand from Azov. After the UN <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/Ukraine_14th_HRMMU_Report.pdf">accused</a> the Azov Battalion of torturing ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the then-president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, praised the group as “our best warriors,” and the group was officially incorporated into the <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ab7dw/azov-battalion-ukraine-far-right">Ukrainian National Guard</a>. The United States was so concerned that in 2018, Congress legally <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/380483-congress-bans-arms-to-controversial-ukrainian-militia-linked-to-neo-nazis">banned</a> U.S. aid from going toward any “arms, training or other assistance” to the Azov Battalion. And a year later, dozens of members of Congress <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/59nqmq/house-democrats-just-demanded-these-neo-nazi-groups-be-prosecuted-as-international-terrorists">lobbied</a> the Trump administration to designate the Azov Battalion as a Foreign Terror Organization. Its official recognition, and the training it offers potentially violent extremists, remain genuine concerns.
While this particular concern is real, it is far from complete. The Azov Battalion is no more representative of the average Ukrainian than the KKK represents the average American. The Azov Battalion has anywhere from <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/who-are-the-azov-regiment">900</a> to <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/ukraine-deutsche-soeldner-heuern-bei-rechtsextremem-freiwilligenbataillon-an-a-1177400.html">2,500</a> members, compared to a Ukrainian military of <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-military-comparison-1.6365115">200,000</a>. Ukrainians, perhaps understandably, say the unsavory elements associated with the Azov Battalion concerns them less than the prospect of annihilation by Russia’s war machine. Vladimir Putin and his surrogates have made a prosecutor’s case for a war of choice.
Of course, most of these same arguments could be made against Russia. David Duke has made <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/david-duke-to-russia-with-hate/">several speaking tours</a> of Russia. Aleksandr Dugin, who has been said to exert significant influence over Putin, has <a href="http://projects.aljazeera.com/2015/07/hate-groups/">ties</a> to white nationalists around the world, <a href="https://thinkprogress.org/russian-american-nationalists-washington-5bd15fd18eaf/">including</a> in the United States. The first white supremacist group ever to be <a href="https://2017-2021.state.gov/united-states-designates-russian-imperial-movement-and-leaders-as-global-terrorists/index.html">named</a> a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, under President Trump, was the <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/68420/confronting-russias-role-in-transnational-white-supremacist-extremism/">St. Petersburg</a>-based Russian Imperial Movement (RIM). The UN also <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/UA/Ukraine_14th_HRMMU_Report.pdf">accused</a> the leaders of the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donestk and Luhansk of committing war crimes in 2014 and of having “undermined the human rights of the estimated 2.7 million people residing under their control.”
CRT tactics to justify total war
Vladimir Putin’s use of the incendiary Nazi terminology serves two purposes. Labeling his opponents as fascists serves to delegitimize the Ukrainian government’s existence, while tapping into the most patriotic memory latent in the memory of the Russian people. Russia still calls World War II, which cost <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Costs-of-the-war">18 million</a> lives due directly to the war and perhaps as many as <a href="https://sovietinfo.tripod.com/ELM-War_Deaths.pdf">26.6 million</a> total, the “Great Patriotic War.” Nearly <a href="https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-should-know-about-wwiis-eastern-front">a million women</a> served in the Soviet war effort as snipers and guerrillas. These staggering losses, and the advice of Communist agent Alger Hiss, allowed Joseph Stalin to bully Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill into giving him the Eastern bloc nations as a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/yaltas-idealistic-goals-doomed-by-missteps-and-conflicts/2020/04/23/f52bd20c-742c-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html">buffer zone</a> to Russia’s west — one that many analysts speculate Putin aims to recreate.
The enormous factual and logical flaws that occur by calling Ukraine “Nazi” are ultimately beside the point of a propaganda phrase intended to dredge up emotions (specifically, hatred and fear). The term “Nazi” delegitimizes anyone associated with it, truthfully or erroneously. Putin calling Zelensky’s Ukraine a “Nazi” government is not meant to reflect the everyday reality on the ground. Like the advocates of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country">Critical Race Theory</a> branding the United States “systemically racist,” the term exists only to portray the constitution of the targeted nation as incapable of reform, as “trash” that needs to be removed. History proved historical Nazis could not be trusted, negotiated with, or even relied upon to surrender when the war became hopeless. They must be obliterated — precisely as Vladimir Putin appears intent on doing.

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Why Is Putin Constantly Calling Ukrainians ‘Nazis’?

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When MSNBC host Joy Reid asked her guest for an explanation of the Israeli-Gaza conflict, the Palestinian expert replied, “Jewish supremacy.” Yet Reid offered no pushback during the closing segment of Friday’s edition of “The ReidOut.”
Reid introduced her guest as “my friend Rula Jebreal, who is a foreign policy analyst and visiting professor at the University of Miami.”
Jebreal’s comments came after Mohammed El-Kurd, who was evicted from his home in Jerusalem’s Sheikh-Jarrah neighborhood, called the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) the “Israeli terrorist forces” and likened them to “fascists.”
“Rula, can you just sort us give us a bigger picture explanation of what’s happening here?” asked Reid, noting that the term evictions “doesn’t feel like it’s the right word for it.”
“Jewish supremacy is the main goal of Israel [sic] apartheid government,” Jebreal replied. “We are already living a project of ethno-religious exclusion and purity.”
“The occupation is metastasized everywhere,” she continued, later adding: “And the most heartbreaking thing, Joy, [is] that the United States subsidized this ethno-nationalist project of exclusion and purity. We subsidized the atrocities that are taking place.”
She also claimed that current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “incited against” former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated. “He was killed by Jewish extremists. Today, these Jewish extremists are in parliament. They’re legislating,” Jebreal said. “Now we have this supremacist movement everywhere spreading, in the judiciary and everywhere.”
Jebreal also seemingly tried to equate Israeli government policy with white supremacy, the U.S. Border Patrol, and the Capitol riot of January 6.
“What you are seeing, Joy, is what [we’ve seen] here in America with these white supremacists under Jim Crow,” Jebreal said, later adding: “We’ve seen this force, whether in January 6. We’ve seen this kind of politics when they put kids in cages in the United States.”
Her attempt to tie her political opponents to white supremacists seems ironic since her words echo the most widely exposed white nationalist in modern U.S. history, <a href="https://davidduke.com/">David Duke</a>.
The former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan literally wrote a book titled <a href="https://archive.org/details/JewishSupremacism_203">Jewish Supremacism</a>; chapter nine is titled, “Israel: A supremacist state.” In it, Duke <a href="https://davidduke.com/jewish-supremacism/">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>My assertion that there exists a powerful, cohesive, world-wide Jewish Supremacism finds confirmation in evidence mostly provided by the Jewish Supremacists themselves. Their supremacist ideology finds clear enunciation in the foundation, structure and conduct of Israel, a nation unabashedly based on an ethnic supremacism. It is a state that has dispossessed, terrorized and grossly violated the human and civil rights of the Palestinian people.</blockquote>
Duke has been a longtime critic of Israel and a supporter of the Palestinian cause. He said on his <a href="https://podcastaddict.com/episode/123030040">podcast</a> Wednesday  that “for [Israel] to get away with this, kind of shows, truly, the Jewish supremacy that exists in the media.”
Jebreal concluded by erroneously linking Benjamin Netanyahu with the January 6 “insurrection.”
“The radicalization in Israel, it’s actually coming here,” she warned Reid and her MSNBC audience. “The main newspaper editor-in-chief, Israel Hayom, he was Bibi Netanyahu’s — somehow surrogate. Guess what? He was at [the] January 6 insurrection.”
It’s unclear what she means: Israel has an influential newspaper called Israel Hayom, but this author was unable to find any reference to any staffer being present at the riot. Jebreal appears to be referring to Elliot Resnick, the Brooklyn-based <a href="https://www.jewishpress.com/author/elliotresnick/">chief editor</a> of The Jewish Press, who attended the event. (He has not been charged with any crime.) But this author has found no evidence that Resnick ever served as a spokesman for Prime Minister Netanyahu.
MSNBC <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0cTz2JEbbQ">posted</a> a portion of the segment (which followed Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s <a href="https://twitter.com/thereidout/status/1393350129269321734">interview</a> earlier in the hour) on YouTube — but they ended the clip just before Jebreal’s incendiary comments.
<blockquote>A partial transcript of their exchange follows:
Joy Reid: Rula, can you just sort us give us a bigger picture explanation of what’s happening here? Because what are being called evictions, it doesn’t feel like it’s the right word for it. What is happening in terms of the homes that people like Mohammed El-Kurd have in East Jerusalem?
Rula Jebreal: So, Jewish supremacy is the main goal of Israel apartheid government. And I say the word apartheid because [the] former prime minister of Israel — two of them — Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, security services, [the] head of the Mossad, and many others use this word, saying, in absence of any political solution, we will be entering apartheid. We are already living a project of ethno-religious exclusion and purity. This is what happened after years of Bibi Netanyahu incitement, weaponization of religion, and weaponization of race, where it doesn’t matter — democracy for even Palestinian who live inside. What matter is their ethnicity, what matter is their race, their religion. And it’s basically this stage where the occupation is metastasized everywhere, not only in Gaza or in the West Bank or East Jerusalem, but also inside Israel. What you are seeing, Joy, is what [we’ve seen] here in America with these white supremacists under Jim Crow. &#8230; We’ve seen this force, whether in January 6. We’ve seen this kind of politics when they put kids in cages in the United States. We’ve seen this before. And the most heartbreaking thing, Joy, [is] that the United States subsidized this ethno-nationalist project of exclusion and purity. We subsidized the atrocities that are taking place.
Reid: Let me ask you this, because it feels like this is sort of the endless, never-ending conflict. … There’s been this talk of a two-state solution forever and ever and ever and ever. It doesn’t feel like it’s going that way. Bigger picture, Rula, is that dead?&#8230; Is that dead as an idea?
Jebreal: Netanyahu killed it. … [Netanyahu] incited against [Rabin, and] he was killed by Jewish extremists. Today, these Jewish extremists are in parliament. They’re legislating. Now we have this supremacist movement everywhere spreading, in the judiciary and everywhere. Not only it’s dead, it’s buried. The reality on the ground [is] that we have a one-state reality. And what you’re seeing is the consequence of a lack, an absence of any political solution. Netanyahu doesn’t want a political solution. Not only that, he wants not only to wage a war on democracy and exterminate Palestinians, he wants to come back and tell Joe Biden, “Don’t interfere in my business.” But he’s willing to come here and lobby Congress against any signature policy. And he’s willing — and one of the things we didn’t pay attention to: The radicalization in Israel, it’s actually coming here. The main newspaper editor-in-chief, Israel Hayom, he was Bibi Netanyahu’s somehow surrogate. Guess what? He was at [the] January 6 insurrection. What happened there, the authoritarianism and what Mohammed [El-Kurd] called “fascist,” it’s coming back here. So, if we stand for democracy, it’s not only in the United States. We need to uphold democracy everywhere.</blockquote>

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MSNBC Guest: ‘Jewish Supremacy’ Caused Israeli-Gaza Conflict

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Yesterday, hapless bloviator <a href="http://www.evefairbanks.com">Eve Fairbanks</a> wasted 3,000 words in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/29/conservatives-say-weve-abandoned-reason-civility-old-south-said-that-too/?arc404=true">The Washington Post</a> on a risible comparison of open discourse, free speech, intellectual tolerance, civility, and reason to the ignominious defenders of chattel slavery in the antebellum South. Because if you are the <a href="http://www.evefairbanks.com/who-is-eve">unhealthily Civil War-obsessed</a> Eve Fairbanks, nothing apparently says &#8220;civility&#8221; and &#8220;tolerance&#8221; like seceding from the Union in evil defense of human enslavement and firing upon Fort Sumter to instigate a bloody conflict that would ultimately take the toll of 600,000-plus lives.
Really — <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/29/conservatives-say-weve-abandoned-reason-civility-old-south-said-that-too/?arc404=true">read the whole screed</a>.
Fairbanks&#8217; <a href="http://www.evefairbanks.com/who-is-eve">&#8220;about me&#8221; section</a> of her freelance journalist website informs the curious reader: &#8220;I grew up in Virginia a little girl mad about the American Civil War. On weekends I begged my father to take me to all the battlefields: Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Antietam. I was transfixed by the moral question the war addressed and the incredible change its end effected: a change we&#8217;re still trying to make real.&#8221; As someone <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/13394/five-lessons-abraham-lincoln-would-have-todays-josh-hammer">proudly born on Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s birthday</a> and who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42341/hammer-it-past-time-trump-openly-defy-court-order-josh-hammer">views Lincoln as the greatest statesman</a> in the history of the American republic, I would succinctly say to Fairbanks: Seek help. This is not healthy. Only through such a narrow, blinders-restricting historical lens could someone possibly deduce that culturally defensive pleas for openness, tolerance, civility, and reason are eerily evocative of antebellum defenders of the &#8220;<a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/peculiar-institution">peculiar institution</a>.&#8221; Fairbanks seems woefully clueless to the reality that many of the greatest thinkers in recorded human history have called for openness, tolerance, civility, and reason for literally thousands of years.
Is Fairbanks so obtuse as to write out of history Aristotle&#8217;s emphasis — later emphasized, in part, by the likes of Maimonides and Aquinas alike — on reason as a quintessential feature of human nature and the necessary stepping stone toward the end goal of true human flourishing? Is Fairbanks so dense as to discard the classically liberal wisdom embodied by early 20th-century Voltaire biographer Evelyn Beatrice Hall: &#8220;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it?&#8221;
At its core, Fairbanks&#8217; juvenile logic is as follows: (A) antebellum slaveholders and slavery defenders stealthily couched their arguments through the lens of tolerance and civility; therefore, (B) contemporary &#8220;Intellectual Dark Web&#8221; types who complain about the intellectually stifling nature of contemporary politically correct leftism run amok, including Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, utilize &#8220;antebellum reasoning&#8221; as a mischievous way to make disreputable opinions seem perfectly reputable. Put another way, as Ben aptly formulated it on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/51218/ep-851-when-everyone-hitler">today&#8217;s podcast</a>: (A) Hitler owned and loved his dog; therefore, (B) all loving dog owners are Hitler. It ought not to take much more intellectual horsepower than merely being a sentient human to intuit the axiomatic asininity therein.
David Duke praised Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) earlier this year — would Fairbanks contend that every Omar supporter is a white nationalist? During the nadir of the Second World War, the United States made a purely tactical decision to ally with Stalin&#8217;s Soviet Union — would Fairbanks submit that every American governmental official, at the time, was a closet communist? Is everyone who enjoys eating at Chick-fil-A necessarily credited with personal support for the conjugal, one-man/one-woman definition of marriage?
The reality is that the discursive and rhetorical notions Fairbanks so sanctimoniously mocks — open discourse, free speech, intellectual tolerance, civility, and reason — are all inherently noble. But noble notions and pursuits, of course, are necessarily subject to intellectual capture, devious bastardization, and sly regurgitation by the forces of evil. Many of history&#8217;s greatest monsters have built support and sought justification for their evil deeds by means of appealing to virtue, reason, and the like. It takes a profound commitment to moral relativism to fail to discern any relevant historical distinctions between, say, Aristotle&#8217;s appeals to reason on the one hand, and Hitler&#8217;s genocide based on something closely approximating racist Aryan &#8220;reason,&#8221; on the other hand. And it takes a similarly robust commitment to moral relativism to fail to discern any relevant historical distinction between John C. Calhoun&#8217;s asserted belief in slavery as a &#8220;positive good,&#8221; on the one hand, and Ben Shapiro&#8217;s insistence on using biologically correct pronouns, on the other hand.
Open discourse and civil respect for opposing viewpoints is a cornerstone of the liberal, post-Enlightenment Western geopolitical order. Indeed, such open discourse and civil respect for harshly opposing viewpoints is what famously animated <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Lincoln-Douglas-debates">both Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas</a> in their 1858 debate series. The debates themselves were fine and dandy; indeed, they were wondrous spectacles for a public ensorcelled by the statesmen&#8217;s dueling positions on Dred Scott, slavery in the western U.S. territories, and the question of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/13394/five-lessons-abraham-lincoln-would-have-todays-josh-hammer">judicial supremacy</a>. Instead, where public discourse and sentiment went awry was when violence broke out and the secessionist insurrectionists ultimately fired upon Fort Sumter. Eve Fairbanks, who presumably would have objected to the very spectacle of Lincoln and Douglas debating each other, would do well to learn such a rudimentary lesson.

Illustration Of Lincoln And Douglas Debate, c. 1858.

HAMMER: Washington Post Contributor Compares Pleas For Tolerance And Civility To Antebellum Slavery. She’s Comically Misguided.

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In the aftermath of several recent mass shootings, many Democrats have repeatedly labeled President Donald Trump as a “white nationalist” or a “white supremacist.” Beto O’Rourke <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456158-orourke-compares-trump-administration-to-nazi-germany">likened his rhetoric to that of the Third Reich</a>, and this viewpoint is shared across much of the Democratic Party.
While the terms “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” are applied increasingly liberally, it seems important to remind ourselves of the definitions of these ideologies before making such accusations.
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<li>White nationalism is based upon the belief of a “white race” and the development of a white national identity.</li>
<li>White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to other races.</li>
<li>Both ideologies have racism running at their very core — usually including unabashed hatred of Jews and racial minorities.</li>
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After some of Trump’s rhetoric was defined as racist or xenophobic by critics, his detractors on the Left saw one short goose-step between subjective criticism and invalid accusations of white supremacy or white nationalism. However, the fact that Trump is white and has been labeled as a racist is obviously insufficient evidence of “white nationalistic” ideology.
Those who blindly criticize Donald Trump as a white supremacist are doing so from a position of ignorance or cynicism. In both cases, they should be forced to provide justification beyond merely claiming that “Trump is racist.” After all, as children, we are taught basic logical principles. One example is that “all apples are fruits, but not all fruits are apples.” Even if Trump were racist (and there is no evidence that he is), we must still remember that “all white supremacists are racist, but not all racists are white supremacists.”
One clear counter-argument to the lazy accusations leveled against Trump is the fact that targeted hatred and subjugation of Jews and black people is a core underlying principle of white supremacist ideology. With this in mind, it seems that Trump would be appallingly bad at being a white supremacist. Trump’s daughter converted to Judaism, he has a town named after him in the Jewish state of Israel, and black unemployment is at its <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006">lowest rate on record</a>. In addition, the claim that Trump reserves certain acerbic language — such as “infestation” — for racial minorities is a lie. For example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50012/selective-outrage-media-trump-also-called-new-ashe-schow">Trump called New Hampshire</a> a “drug-infested den.” New Hampshire is 93.9% white.
Instead of accepting these realities, the common response is to pivot to the claim that Trump is a white supremacist because he is supported by some fringe white supremacists. This is based upon yet another logical fallacy called “guilt by association,” whereby guilt is assigned based on some irrelevant association or shared attribute. For example: “You have black hair. Hitler had black hair. Therefore, you are Hitler.”
While criticisms of Trump’s presidential campaign can arguably be made regarding instances of pandering to the alt-right, neither Trump’s rhetoric nor his actions in office provide any substantive proof to suggest that he is a white supremacist. The fact that some white supremacists support Trump is evidence — at the very most — that they share some perceived or actual common viewpoints. However, this is only relevant if the shared policies are elements of the white supremacist ideology — and there is no evidence of this.
In addition, it is glaringly obvious that support alone does not indicate a completely shared ideology. After Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) anti-Semitic tweets implying that Israel had “hypnotized the world,” David Duke, a former “Grand Wizard” of the Klu Klux Klan, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/7/david-duke-praises-rep-ilhan-omar/">came out in support of Omar</a>.
Following the Left’s logic, Ilhan Omar is a white supremacist and supports the Klu Klux Klan. While much of Ilhan Omar’s ideology is utterly detestable, this is clearly an absurd assertion. Indeed, if the vocal support of one white supremacist were all that were needed to condemn a politician, all members of the Klu Klux Klan would come out in support of every one of their political enemies — leaving the electorate no choice but to vote the KKK into power.
Critics of Trump are more than welcome to voice their displeasure regarding Trump’s policies or character. However, if they are going to level such appalling allegations of “white supremacy” or “white nationalism,” they should be forced to provide evidence beyond “he’s white and I think he’s racist.” Refusing to do so shows a dismissive attitude towards the specificity of words, and a complete lack of acknowledgment for how despicable the ideologies of white nationalism and white supremacy truly are.

Donald Trump

HAWORTH: Trump Is Not A White Supremacist

Racism

White Supremacy

Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke praised Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Thursday amid her ongoing anti-Semitism scandal, calling her the most important person in Congress.
&#8220;Dr Duke &amp; Eric Striker: By Defiance to Z.O.G. Ilhan Omar is NOW the most important Member of the US Congress!&#8221; Duke tweeted with a picture of Omar that had a smiley face covered with hearts.
On his website, a synopsis of Duke&#8217;s podcast on Omar stated that Duke &#8220;heaped praise on Ilhan Omar (D-New Somalia) for being the one person in Congress willing to notice AIPAC and the &#8216;dual&#8217; loyalty of many (((members of Congresss))).&#8221;
The three parentheses around the words &#8220;members of Congress,&#8221; is an alt-right anti-Semitic trope used to identify and demonize people who are Jewish.
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Dr Duke &amp; Eric Striker: By Defiance to Z.O.G. Ilhan Omar is NOW the most important Member of the US Congress! <a href="https://t.co/R4d4X81xdv">https://t.co/R4d4X81xdv</a> <a href="https://t.co/C083V57VQp">pic.twitter.com/C083V57VQp</a>
&#8212; David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/1103710728064847877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Duke&#8217;s endorsement of Omar comes as the congresswoman is facing more controversy after she made a new round of anti-Semitic remarks over the weekend.
Democratic presidential candidates came to Omar&#8217;s defense on Wednesday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44343/democratic-presidential-candidates-rush-defend-ryan-saavedra">stating</a> that they did not believe that her anti-Semitic remarks were actually anti-Semitic.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44334/intimidated-pelosi-wont-say-ilhan-omars-comments-hank-berrien">reported</a> that &#8220;on Wednesday, asked by a reporter about comments made by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that have widely been interpreted as anti-Semitic, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has assiduously avoided the idea of taking Omar off of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, answered that she did not think Omar&#8217;s comments were &#8216;intentionally anti-Semitic.'&#8221;
When pressed on Wednesday by a reporter about her latest anti-Semitic remarks, where she suggested that Jewish members of Congress were trying to force her to have dual loyalties to Israel, Omar ran and refused to answer questions.
&#8220;Are you anti-Semitic?&#8221; Fox News&#8217; Peter Doocy asked.
Omar refused to answer as she looked away.
&#8220;Would you support this resolution condemning anti-Semitism?&#8221;
Omar refused to answer.
&#8220;Would you support the resolution condemning all forms of bigotry?&#8221;
Omar refused to answer.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) runs from reporters when questioned about her latest round of anti-Semitic remarks.
Omar refused to deny that she was an anti-Semite. <a href="https://t.co/De7Ribmp4P">pic.twitter.com/De7Ribmp4P</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1103401956939161602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Last week, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44130/stop-treating-ilhan-omar-child-her-anti-semitism-ben-shapiro">wrote</a> that Omar was &#8220;caught on tape once again indulging in her favorite off-hours pastime &#8211; some cozy anti-Semitism with cheering fans. Omar, of course, has a long history of anti-Semitism: accusing Israel of &#8216;hypnotizing the world,&#8217; suggesting that American support for Israel is &#8220;all about the Benjamins,&#8221; backing the anti-Semitic BDS movement.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, appearing alongside fellow anti-Semitic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), who herself recently accused American supporters of Israel of dual loyalty to Israel and is, along with Omar, a supporter of anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions from Israel, Omar reached for the anti-Semitic lever once again,&#8221; Shapiro continued. &#8220;First, Omar smiled when an audience member yelled, &#8216;It is about the Benjamins.&#8217;&#8221; Then, she stated, &#8216;What I&#8217;m fearful of &#8211; because Rashida and I are Muslim &#8211; that a lot of our Jewish colleagues&#8230;go to thinking that everything we say about Israel to be anti-Semitic because we are Muslim&#8230;.So for me, I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country.'&#8221;
&#8220;This is, once again, anti-Semitis,&#8221; Shapiro noted. &#8220;It sets her &#8216;days since open anti-Semitism'&#8221; calendar back to zero; for the record, she was only up to 18 days.&#8221;
Read Shapiro&#8217;s full report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44130/stop-treating-ilhan-omar-child-her-anti-semitism-ben-shapiro">here</a>.

Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke: ‘Omar Most Important Member Of Congress!’

Guess who&#8217;s the new best buddy of anti-Semitic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar? Big surprise: famed anti-Semite David Duke.
On Monday, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and famed white supremacist and anti-Semite inserted his charming self into the controversy surrounding the rabidly anti-Semitic tweets of Rep. Ilhan Omar. After former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley&#8217;s powerful response condemning Omar, Duke attacked Haley, tweeting his usual conspiratorial rhetoric about Jews, stating, &#8220;So, let us get this straight. It is &#8216;Anti-Semitism&#8217; to point out that the most powerful political moneybags in American politics are Zionists who put another nation&#8217;s interest (israel&#8217;s) over that of America??????&#8221;
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So, let us get this straight. It is &#8220;Anti-Semitism&#8221; to point out that the most powerful political moneybags in American politics are Zionists who put another nation&#8217;s interest (israel&#8217;s) over that of America ?????? <a href="https://t.co/2e1QbIxOGp">https://t.co/2e1QbIxOGp</a>
&#8212; David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/1094961012921585667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Haley had tweeted in response to Omar&#8217;s anti-Semitic tweets, &#8220;To see this at the UN was a fight every day. This CANNOT be tolerated in our own Congress by anyone of either party. In a time of increased anti semitism, we all must be held to account. No excuses.&#8221;
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To see this at the UN was a fight every day. This CANNOT be tolerated in our own Congress by anyone of either party. In a time of increased anti semitism, we all must be held to account. No excuses. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoSpaceForHate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoSpaceForHate</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoToleranceForAntiSemitism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoToleranceForAntiSemitism</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatIsHappeningWithPeople?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhatIsHappeningWithPeople</a> <a href="https://t.co/zUaNjp3hHo">https://t.co/zUaNjp3hHo</a>
&#8212; Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1094798918674759683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Duke has attacked Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, accusing them of collusion with Israel:
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Israel collusion, is real&#8230; they think it&#8217;s funny.
Lock. Them. Up. <a href="https://t.co/zbqHSpMSWN">pic.twitter.com/zbqHSpMSWN</a>
&#8212; David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/1094489847895638016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="v">Fox News</a> reported in 2006, Duke told a Holocaust conference in Iran that gas chambers were not used to annihilate Jews in the Holocaust. He also stated, &#8220;The Holocaust is the device used as the pillar of Zionist imperialism, Zionist aggression, Zionist terror and Zionist murder.&#8221;
In an interview with Evelyn Rich in March 1985 regarding the Holocaust, Duke <a href="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/David-Duke-long-article.pdf">said</a>, &#8220;Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody &#8212; every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here; 400 survivors convention there. I mean, did you ever notice? Nazis sure were inefficient, weren&#8217;t they? Boy, boy, boy! &#8230; You almost have no survivors that ever say they saw a gas chamber or saw the workings of a gas chamber. &#8230; they&#8217;ll say these preposterous stories that anybody can check out to be a lie, an absolute lie.&#8221;
As the <a href="v">Anti-Defamation League</a> reported:
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Since September 11, Duke has reiterated his belief that Israel and the Mossad perpetrated the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He has insisted that the Mossad warned 4,000 Jews who worked at the World Trade Center to stay home on the day of the attacks, while allowing thousands of innocent Americans to die. Duke&#8217;s &#8220;proof&#8221; further reveals his bigotry&#8211;he has said that since Jews control finance, more Israelis/Jews should have died in the World Trade Center. He has also stated that Israel carried out the attacks to turn attention away from its treatment of the Palestinians.
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In his book, &#8220;My Awakening,&#8221; Duke wrote of Jews:
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They thoroughly dominate the news and entertainment media in almost every civilized nation; they control the international markets and stock exchanges; and no government can resist doing their bidding on any issue of importance. They can coalesce against any state that resists their power, whether it [sic] economic extortion of a billion dollars from Switzerland or the violent carpet bombing of Iraq. The cohesion of the Jewish people is indeed the context of the New World Order, and with it they propose to extend their totalitarian denial of free speech from Europe and Canada to the nation that was once the most free in the world: the United States.
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Guess Who Is Anti-Semite Ilhan Omar’s New Best Buddy?

&#8220;David Duke shows up for every media opportunity because you guys put up the cameras,&#8221; said Breitbart News&#8216; Executive Chair Stephen Bannon to Charlie Rose during a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-breitbart-steve-bannon-declares-war-on-the-gop/">Sunday-aired interview</a> on CBS&#8217; 60 Minutes.
Bannon claimed in the interview that Rose and other news media figures regularly hype the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), neo-Nazis, and assorted white racial nationalists as a significant portion of President Donald Trump&#8217;s political support base; they further accuse Trump of courting such groups.
Bannon described such groups as &#8220;irrelevant.&#8221;
Partial transcript below.
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BANNON: I was of the opinion that you should condemn both the racists and the neo-Nazis, because they&#8217;re getting a free ride off Donald Trump. They&#8217;re getting a free ride, because it&#8217;s a small group, it&#8217;s a vicious group, they add no value, and all they do is show up and the mainstream media and the left-wing media makes them up as some huge part of Donald Trump&#8217;s coalition.
ROSE: David Duke &#8230;
BANNON: They&#8217;re not part &#8230;
ROSE: David Duke &#8230;.
BANNON: David Duke shows up for every media opportunity because you guys put up the cameras.
ROSE: Well &#8230;
BANNON: Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, they&#8217;re irrelevant.
ROSE: The media does not make David Duke say what he says, that he applauded what the president did. That&#8217;s what David Duke did.
BANNON: The president has condemned David Duke and what David Duke stands for.
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Bannon dismissed Rose as a &#8220;limousine liberal&#8221; after the CBS host framed Breitbart News&#8216; chairman as lacking regard for &#8220;diversity&#8221;:
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BANNON: I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood. The northside of Richmond is predominantly black, okay? I went to an integrated school, a Catholic school. I served in the military. I don&#8217;t need to be lectured by a bunch of limousine liberals from the Upper East Side of New York and from the Hamptons about any of this. My lived experience is that.
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Watch the segment below.
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Watch the full interview <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-breitbart-steve-bannon-declares-war-on-the-gop/">here</a>.
Follow Robert Kraychik on <a href="https://twitter.com/kr3ch3k">Twitter</a>.

Bannon To CBS’ Rose: ‘Limousine Liberals’ Like You Hype White Supremacist Threat

Charlie Rose

Charlottesville

Media Bias

Steve Bannon

It&#8217;s been approximately six months since Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) resigned in disgrace from her position as Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
With a bevy of endorsements from the likes of Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to the House of Representatives, is considered the front-runner to replace Wasserman-Schultz at the DNC.
Ellison, however, has a problematic background&#8211;to borrow progressive parlance.
While Ellison attended the University of Minnesota, he was an outspoken defender of Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam leader, and vocal anti-Semite. According to <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/keith-ellison-democratic-national-committee-chair">Mother Jones</a>:
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Ellison, who had taken to calling himself &#8216;Keith Hakim,&#8217; published a series of op-eds in the student paper, the Minnesota Daily, defending the Nation of Islam leader. The center also invited Kwame Ture, the black-power activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, to give a speech, during which he called Zionism a form of white supremacy. Ellison, then a member of the Black Law Student Association, introduced him.
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Despite Ellison claiming he was never a member of the Nation of Islam, and that he began to realize the error of following Farrakhan in 1995, Mother Jones reports that &#8220;[Ellison&#8217;s] break from Farrakhan was not quite as clean as he portrayed it.&#8221;
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Under the byline Keith X Ellison, months after the march that he described as an epiphany, he penned an op-ed in the Twin Cities black weekly Insight News, pushing back against charges of anti-Semitism directed at Farrakhan. In 1997, nearly two years later, he endorsed a statement again defending Farrakhan.
When Ellison ran (unsuccessfully) for state representative in 1998, Insight News described him as affiliated with the Nation of Islam. Two organizers who worked with him at the time told me they believed Ellison had been a member of the Nation. At community meetings, he was even known to show up in a bow tie, accompanied by dark-suited members of the Fruit of Islam, the Nation&#8217;s security wing.
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It wasn&#8217;t until 2006 that Ellison fully denounced Farrakhan, and the Nation of Islam leader&#8217;s anti-Semitism.
However, at a 2010 fundraiser, Ellison gave a <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/5713/full-audio-of-keith-ellison-remarks-at-esam">speech</a> filled with anti-Israel sentiment, and anti-Semitic undertones:
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&#8220;The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people&#8230;A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million. Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?&#8221;
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The Anti-Defamation League issued a <a href="http://www.jta.org/2016/12/01/news-opinion/politics/in-6-year-old-speech-ellison-says-u-s-policy-is-governed-by-israeli-interests">statement</a> regarding Ellison&#8217;s speech that reads in part:
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&#8220;&#8230;whether intentional or not, his words raise the specter of age-old stereotypes about Jewish control of our government, a poisonous myth that may persist in parts of the world where intolerance thrives, but that has no place in open societies like the U.S.&#8221;
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Now that he&#8217;s running for DNC Chair, his past is coming back to bite him. In a peculiar twist of events, Ellison just received an endorsement from white supremacist, David Duke:
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Keith Ellison, Sally Boynton Brown or Jehmu Greene would all be excellent choices &#8211; I really like Keith though&#8230; I mean, at least he knows. <a href="https://t.co/jXQK1CJEie">https://t.co/jXQK1CJEie</a>
&#8212; David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/830867971316862977">February 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
Duke&#8217;s somewhat facetious endorsement underscores something troubling. David Duke sees Keith Ellison as someone who understands his worldview. The tweet most likely refers to Ellison&#8217;s alleged anti-Semitism.
Perhaps more interesting is the lack of response to Duke&#8217;s tweet from Ellison, or other high-profile Democrats. When Duke endorsed Donald Trump, and Trump refused to immediately condemn the endorsement on CNN, he was rightly excoriated. The calls to denounce Duke were fervent.
Ellison himself tweeted about David Duke&#8217;s affinity for Donald Trump last July:
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David Duke, Grand Wizard of the KKK liked the Trump speech. <a href="https://t.co/D7WGIZYf3m">pic.twitter.com/D7WGIZYf3m</a>
&#8212; Rep. Keith Ellison (@keithellison) <a href="https://twitter.com/keithellison/status/756336087870558208">July 22, 2016</a></blockquote>
Where are the calls for Keith Ellison to denounce David Duke&#8217;s endorsement? Why isn&#8217;t Duke&#8217;s endorsement trending on social media, or being featured on CNN? Why hasn&#8217;t Ellison denounced Duke on Twitter?
Multiple calls to Ellison&#8217;s DNC campaign office went unanswered.

Guess Who Just Endorsed Keith Ellison for DNC Chair? The Media Will Never Tell You.

Democratic Party

Islam

Keith Ellison

Actor Chris Evans, who plays the self-controlled Captain America, wasn&#8217;t quite so controlled after he found out KKK leader David Duke was enthused about President Trump&#8217;s choice for Attorney General, Jeff Sessions:
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If David Duke&#8230;.DAVID!&#8230;DUKE!&#8230; thinks you&#8217;re right, then you are unequivocally wrong. The confirmation of <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffsessions">@jeffsessions</a> is beyond words. <a href="https://t.co/CuLUznwO6S">https://t.co/CuLUznwO6S</a>
&#8212; Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/829490363832283136">February 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Evans was reacting to this tweet of Duke&#8217;s:
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Mr. Trump&#8217;s appointment of Bannon, Flynn and Sessions are the first steps in the project of taking America back.<a href="https://t.co/Yn2gJ8LtUf">https://t.co/Yn2gJ8LtUf</a>
&#8212; David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/799650482532876292">November 18, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Yet Evans had no compunction about remaining silent when Duke quasi-endorsed hard-left Congressman Keith Ellison, who has made overtly anti-Semitic statements, for DNC chair:
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Keith Ellison, Sally Boynton Brown or Jehmu Greene would all be excellent choices &#8211; I really like Keith though&#8230; I mean, at least he knows. <a href="https://t.co/jXQK1CJEie">https://t.co/jXQK1CJEie</a>
&#8212; David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrDavidDuke/status/830867971316862977">February 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Evans&#8217; silence regarding Ellison prompted Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro to fire back at Captain America:
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Quick, say the same thing about Keith Ellison for DNC Chair. <a href="https://t.co/ksjipzjemC">https://t.co/ksjipzjemC</a>
&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/831164751883350016">February 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro and Evans confronted each other once before. In 2013, Shapiro appeared on CNN with Piers Morgan, dismissing claims that NBA player Jason Collins deserved hero status for announcing that he was gay. Shapiro commented:
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Heroism is defined by willingness to sacrifice, and willingness to take a real personal risk in favor of a noble, larger goal. This may be a noble, larger goal but I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s a great personal risk . . . Why do you hate Americans so much, that you think this is such a homophobic country, that when Jason Collins comes out it is the biggest deal in the history of humanity? President Obama has to personally call him to congratulate him &#8230;. I think that America is a fundamentally good place &#8230;. Being who you are in 2013 America is what America is about. It is not heroic to be who you are publicly. I&#8217;m glad for Jason Collins if it makes him feel like he&#8217;s going to have a happier life now. But, it does not make him a hero to be who you are because America is not a homophobic country.&#8221;
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Evans tweeted:
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I genuinely dislike <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro">@benshapiro</a>
&#8212; Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans/status/330229601844477952">May 3, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro fired back:
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I don&#8217;t dislike <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisEvans">@chrisevans</a>. We can disagree on politics, agree that The Fantastic Four is a terrible movie, and still like each other.
&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/330311671467880449">May 3, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Shapiro, who has tweeted roughly 77,000 times and has 438,000 followers, has only designated <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro">one tweet that he likes</a>: Evans&#8217;.

Captain America Attacks Jeff Sessions.  Shapiro Destroys Him With One Tweet.

Chris Evans

Jeff Sessions

American consumers often forget the undeniable truth: they are in charge. 
They control which businesses succeed and which ones fail. With the power of their money, it’s American consumers who decide if cheap, low quality goods will become the standard, or if they’re willing to pay a little bit more to get something they’re proud to have.
Nowhere is this concept more prevalent than in the rightfully maligned food industry. We’ve mostly moved past the days when people raised their own meat or at the very least, bought it from the butcher down the road. 
Now the process has become highly commercialized with most shoppers mindlessly strolling fluorescent-lit grocery store aisles with no idea where all that food came from. Some of us have watched behind-the-scenes exposés depicting the inhumane treatment of animals, especially in overseas meat plants where regulations may be lax. 
Nobody wants to stop eating hamburgers; they’re just too delicious. But we also feel a little icky picking up that clearance package of ground beef knowing what we know. And the butcher down the street? He’s long since sold the business to some warehouse developer.
And it gets worse. While meat shoppers may pride themselves for selecting a steak with a big “Product of the U.S.A.” sticker on it, the fact is that a nice T-bone is most likely imported. That’s because around 85% of grass fed beef is shipped in from other countries. Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-23/most-grass-fed-beef-labeled-product-of-u-s-a-is-imported">reported</a> that meat products can be labeled as a “Product of the U.S.A.” if they’re “processed” here, which could be as simple as trimming the already butchered animal into a different cut.
Grass fed may also be a misnomer. Unlike the word “organic,” which must meet strict requirements by the USDA, “grass-fed” can be left up to interpretation. That means your pricier grass fed beef could come from an animal that was confined in a pen and fed grass pellets. The majority of this meat is shipped from Australia and New Zealand, where a more temperate climate means cheaper costs for raising cattle.
But because of the internet and investigative reporting such as this, people are waking up to the fact that they can’t trust the packaging. Instead, many shoppers are choosing to buy in bulk and source their meat from local farms instead. 
The internet has made that process much, much easier. Now there’s online meat delivery that connects consumers with chemical free, American-bred, affordably priced meat that was actually raised and slaughtered on American soil. It’s about as close to that pickup truck commercial as you can get. 
Online retailers like Good Ranchers are leading the charge on this front, changing meat shopping habits one hamburger patty at a time. And while most people assume these meat delivery services are super expensive, it’s actually the opposite in most cases. 
Buying meat that’s flash frozen at the peak of freshness cuts down on food waste. That means no more chicken you forgot to make getting thrown out at the end of the week. Plus, with around <a href="https://theprepared.com/blog/new-statistics-on-modern-prepper-demographics-from-fema-and-cornell-university/#:~:text=During%20that%20NPR%20interview%2C%20we,basics%20like%20a%20smoke%20detector.">20 million Americans</a> going the extra step to prep for a potential natural disaster, keeping a backstock of protein-packed, energy rich grass fed meat just seems like a good idea.
We all want the world to change but often wonder how to do it. With this one small alteration, the average American family can make a difference by telling the meat industry they’re fed up with shady business practices and misleading meat imported from other countries. We probably can’t go back to local butcher shops on every corner. But, regular people who care about the quality of their food can pick something better to put on the table.

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In 1996, &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; did a &#8220;Treehouse of Horror&#8221; episode featuring Bill Clinton running against Bob Dole. Halfway through the episode, during a presidential debate, Homer Simpson reveals that both candidates are &#8220;hideous space reptiles,&#8221; complete with dripping fangs, tentacles and one eye each: Kodos and Kang. The crowd screams in shock and horror. Then one of the aliens, Kodos, speaks: &#8220;It&#8217;s true; we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It&#8217;s a two-party system. You have to vote for one of us.&#8221; The crowd mutters in stunned agreement. One fellow speaks up: &#8220;Well, I believe I&#8217;ll vote for a third-party candidate!&#8221; &#8220;Go ahead,&#8221; says Kang, &#8220;throw your vote away.&#8221; Both aliens laugh hysterically as the crowd frets.
Welcome to election 2016.
But this election does raise a serious question for people of all political affiliations: Do the political ends justify the means? Is there anyone who agrees with you on policy for whom you would not vote?
The myth of the binary vote would force a &#8220;no&#8221; answer. If you must choose between two candidates, you choose the one who best reflects your policy priorities. But what if the candidate who best reflects your policy priorities is utterly unpalatable as a politician or a human being? What do you do then?
You vote for him or her anyway.
Take, as a hypothetical, a David Duke senatorial candidacy in Louisiana. A vicious racist and anti-Semite, former Ku Klux Klan head Duke is indeed running for Senate, and he&#8217;s garnering some 5 percent of the vote there; he&#8217;ll be included in the broadcast debate. Assume, for a moment, that Duke were the prospective 60th vote in the Senate to repeal Obamacare. Would Republicans vote for him?
Most Republicans, asked about voting for David Duke, would likely say no to his candidacy no matter the circumstances. But some wouldn&#8217;t. They&#8217;d simply say that Duke on policy would be better than his Democratic opponent. Why lose a Senate seat to prove a point?
This is precisely the argument now taking place over Donald Trump on the Republican side of the aisle. No, Trump isn&#8217;t David Duke, of course. But that&#8217;s not the point: The argument in favor of Trump has had little to do with his qualities, and much to do with his status as the Not Hillary. That&#8217;s dangerous moral territory, at best. It&#8217;s basic &#8220;ends justify the means&#8221; logic. And that logic approves of any action by a candidate so long as that candidate votes the right way on an issue about which you care.
Conservatives used to mock such thinking. We used to scoff at Democrats calling Sen. Teddy Kennedy, D-Mass, a man who left a woman to drown in the back of his car, the &#8220;lion of the Senate.&#8221; We used to sneer at the Democratic notion that Bill Clinton could get away with sexual assault so long as he backed abortion-on-demand.
Perhaps years of Democratic rule from the White House has forced Republicans to abandon the notion that character matters in the slightest; perhaps we&#8217;ve just decided to become Democrats of the right. If so, let&#8217;s be honest about it. But let&#8217;s also recognize where such voting logic leads: directly to the worst people in positions of the greatest power. Many Trump supporters are fond of saying that they&#8217;d back Stalin to stop Hitler. But that&#8217;s not the question. The real question is whether they&#8217;d vote for Hitler to stop the Communist threat in 1933 Germany, or vote for the Communists to stop Hitler. After all, it was a binary choice.
Or perhaps it wasn&#8217;t. Perhaps more people should have stood up and said &#8220;no&#8221; to the available choices.
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