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President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass a sweeping police reform bill by today, the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. That’s not going to happen.
“I would be shocked if anything happened as soon as tomorrow. I was briefed as soon as last week,” Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Dem, told Burgess.
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Republican lawmakers turn on Marjorie Taylor Greene after she compares mask mandates to the Holocaust
Updated: May 24 2021, 1:00 ET
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REPUBLICAN lawmakers have turned on Marjorie Taylor Greene and slammed her evil lunacy after she compared mask mandates to the Holocaust.
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Their ire was struck after Rep. Greene s appearance on the conservative cable network Real America’s Voice earlier this weekCredit: Real America s Voice This woman [Pelosi] is mentally ill, she began. You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany.
RICHARD ROSE
In light of the painful politics of recent years, it is no longer possible to deny that white nationalism is a part of our national consciousness. The most recent evidence is the foundational document for Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s America First Caucus, which claims that America is “strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” Although Greene distanced herself from the document after its condemnation by members of both parties, it confirms that white nationalism has seriously infected our politics.
There can be no dialogue without respect for one’s opposition, no matter how wrong you feel they might be. If you listen to MSNBC, you might get the impression that white nationalists are either mentally ill or victims of demonic possession. Actually, white nationalism is a real ideology with an internally consistent logic of its own. Before any attempt to discuss its errors, we must understand what we are opposing and