"If you really cared, if you really wanted to save the population from dying of COVID, you would encourage people to slim down." - Tucker Carlson October 5, 2020.
"Why would you want to raise your own kids when Michelle Obama will do it for you, in fact she'll do it at gunpoint." - Tucker Carlson Feb. 15, 2011, about Obama administration efforts to "encourage people to slim down." 2/2 mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/t…
"Masks are fascism. Instead of masks, we need ... urgent efforts to do something else that we also previously called fascism to score a different stupid political point."
The Atlantic quoted Rush Limbaugh in 2010 denouncing Michelle Obama's encouragement of exercise and instead urging Americans to eat Twinkies - all to prove "liberals lie." theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…
Fox News, talk radio, Sarah Palin hated, hated, hated the anti-obesity campaign of the Obama years, treated it as the end of American freedom then and there. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…
The sudden rediscovery that Michelle Obama was after all right about obesity ... it's head-spinning. Anyway, I wrote this about the issue in 2012. davidfrum.com/article/why-we…
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Some Never Trumpers will settle permanently into what started as a temporary political home. They will have supported Democrats in 2016, 2018, 2020 and will never return. 2/x
Other Never Trumpers may feel that their political work is done with the defeat of Trump. They'll exit political life altogether for other pursuits and interests. About half the time, I feel this will be my own answer. 3/x
@stuartpstevens Stuart's father's action did not change the course of history. The Japanese-Americans were still interned. It changed the course of Stuart's father's life. He went to fight in the South Pacific instead, where he could have been killed. Later, Stuart asked: "why?"
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@stuartpstevens Stuart's father answered: "You can always say 'No.'"
That's a saying to keep in mind in the coming weeks and months, as former Trumpers reinvent themselves - and explain how they only supported Trump because this or that blue-checkmark personality was disagreeable to them. 3/x
Trump tweets about his health remind me of a story my late father-in-law Peter Worthington told about covering the Six Day War in 1967 ... 1/x
Pete was in Cairo on the day the war started. He was awoken early by air raid sirens. He turned on Radio Cairo to listen for news. Time passed until an announcer delivered a bulletin. "The Zionists attacked at dawn. We shot down six of their planes and suffered no losses." 2/x
Pete shaved and prepared to go visit the air ministry for himself. The announcer returned to the air. "Update: we shot down TWELVE Zionist planes and suffered no losses ourselves."
He understood the Egyptians had suffered a bad defeat. 3/x
When asked about anti-Semitism - which was rife among his supporters and lifelong associates - Corbyn would retreat to some broad formula about "all forms of racism."
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Corbyn understood that many important members of his coalition were doing things that *Jews* thought of as anti-Semitic - but that he thought perfectly fine. To condemn anti-Semitism as such would open the door to allowing Jews to define what was anti-Jewish and what was not. 3/x