jadis

American progressivism today depends on the assumption that its opponents are hicks. Frankly it's a huge reason the woke progressive identity has such purchase: an easy way to signal you're not one of the dumb losers from flyover country or whatever.

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"In postwar Europe, on the whole, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and equally absurd hatreds rooted in ancient religious texts became a disgraced and dead relic buried in the ruins of the Third Reich. But in the postwar Middle East, these notions persisted in elements of radical nationalist and Isl?mist politics."