Weird Backdrop News Today

But thats where we are. somewhere between the normal ebb and flow of politics and this freakish riptide thats pulling us out into the darkest places we know, the darkest places we can imagine. thats where we are. but both those things are happening at once, right? this really dark stuff on the right is the backdrop, is the background noise, is this thing that sort of lurks just offshore while we do normal electoral politics between democrats and republicans in the foreground. and when i say that...

Reporter christopher miller has been covering the trial every day for buzzfeed news. he wrote this week about how one of the defendants, actually the one who asked whats your favorite holocaust joke today to his fellow defendant, that guy said in court filings in this case that he shares his, quote, views on the pressing issues of our time with former president donald trump. he shares his views with former president trump. he also said he shares those views, incidentally, with the 8:00 p.m. host...

Political views. he asks heimbach if hes raid "mein kampf." yes, he said. asked whether he believed hitler murdered 6 million jews, heimbachs says no. that was what happened says no. that was what happened in virginia today. weird backdrop for electoral politics, weird backdrop for a big election with the eyes of the nation on it. what happened in charlottesville, virginia in 2017, this far right rally that resulted in one woman being killed, more than a dozen seriously injured, the parading of ...

This replacement theory that deborah lipstadt explained today and that we all heard out of the lips of those guys with tiki torches in 2017 in charlottesville. and so this trial is unfolding now in virginia. its a weird backdrop for this big, important election in virginia, right? its actually quite insane for this to be humming along in the background alongside the other normal political dynamics that we have between the american right and the american left, between the two major political part...

Question. that was what happened in virginia today. weird backdrop for electoral politics, weird backdrop for a big election with the eyes of the nation on it. what happened in charlottesville, virginia, in 2017, this far right rally that resulted in one woman being killed, more than a dozen seriously injured, the parading of these neo-nazi groups, the torches, chants about jews, replacement theory and all the rest of it, charlottesville is what president biden said prompted him to run for presi...