Source: The Dispatch
by Chris Stirewalt
“The myth of the pet-eating Hatians of Springfield is some nasty stuff, to be sure. But it feels a lot more like a desperation play by a losing campaign than the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. When people said the professional offices of the Chilukuris or Shyamala Gopalan Harris probably smelled like curry, it didn’t make national news either. The sneers and the jokes didn’t get any publicity back then, but then neither did anyone go on the Sunday talk shows to denounce it. America is a different place than it was when those kinds of slanders weren’t reported, but were believed. That’s in part because Americans have seen the world.” (09/17/24)