What Jonah Goldberg gets wrong on the
Mar a Lago raid
Posted By: DW626, 8/31/2022 5:00:43 AM
It once again has become necessary that Mr. Jonah Goldberg, scholar, humorist, rationalist, and exemplar of moral consistency, bring to heal a rabidly partisan right-wing (Yearning for a Banana Republic). The burden is thrust upon him by a benighted epoch. “What an amazingly stupid time this is,” laments Jonah. The immediate evidence of the era’s stupidity is the enhanced partisanship for Donald Trump voiced by conservatives, after the FBI’s raid on his estate at Mar-a-Lago. Apparently in reaction to the search, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, along with others, renewed his support for Trump’s candidacy in 2024.
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– A Complete Assault on MAGA and American Patriotism 22 replies
Joe Biden is going deliver a speech about “the soul of the nation” on Thursday night to a national audience.
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Well, the left has got one. On Twitter and beyond, you've never heard such crowing:
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