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In reply to the discussion: Pierce: The Historical Significance of 'Cosmopolitan' as an Insult [View all]loyalsister
(13,390 posts)6. He should meet the MO governor
2015 a republican sate auditor committed suicide because his primary opponents were beginning an anti-Semitic whisper campaign. He wasn't Jewish But his grandfather was and had told him enough about his experiences to make Tom Schweich sensitive to it.
2016 Republicans manage to nominate a former Democrat who also happens to be a reform Jew and win the governorship. Since elected, he has been Trump's protege. He's not driven by values or beliefs- only self promotion. So much so that he has enabled anti-Semitism and other bigotry himself with his enthusiastic forgiveness of bigots.
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As must be his non-English speaking grandparents, from Poland, spinning in their graves n/t
BamaRefugee
Aug 2017
#41
Eventually they will be crawling on all fours. Many already seem to be there already, for trump...nt
lostnfound
Aug 2017
#4
It's not only a historic signaling device - it's a conservative religious signaling
Nay
Aug 2017
#35
Shouldn't POTUS be required to pass the test immigrants take to become citizens,
SleeplessinSoCal
Aug 2017
#17
I caught that, too, and it floored me. "Rootless cosmopolite" goes back way before Stalin, iirc...
Hekate
Aug 2017
#32
soooo, cosmopolitan, worldly, intellectual, are insults? dog whistles to the great
niyad
Aug 2017
#37
See my post above. It's specifically anti-Semitic because Jews were not "rooted" in "the land"...
Hekate
Aug 2017
#44