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am I really experiencing this is this
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just some horrific nightmare and I'm
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gonna wake up there is hate and it isn't
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going away it just seems to be getting
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worse welcome back to hardware that was
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rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life
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synagogue in Pittsburgh responding to
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the horrific attack on his congregation
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this Saturday Saturday's attack took the
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lives of 11 congregants make it the
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deadliest attack on Jewish people in US
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history in US history according to the
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NA defamation League it's part of a
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pattern however of growing anti-semitism
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in the country in 2017 the number of
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anti-semitic incidents Rose rose by
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nearly 60% the largest single increase
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on record by the organization by the ADL
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over the weekend President Trump
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condemned the attack as evil but his
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critics say his off prompter comments
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the ones that aren't being written on
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the prompter have been more troubling
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last week for example a rally in Houston
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right here
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Trump referred to himself as a
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nationalist a term embraced by those
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with a racist ideology they have a word
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it sort of became old-fashioned it's
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called a nationalist and I say really
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we're not supposed to use that word you
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know what I am I'm a nationalist okay
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when Trump has continued to stoke
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conspiracies about billionaire liberal
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donor George Soros who was Jewish and
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the target of one of the mail bombs sent
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out last week here he goes it's become
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radical resistance you ever see their
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signs resist they say what are you going
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to resist I don't know he'll go to a
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person holding a son who gets paid by
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Soros or somebody right that's what
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happened I saw is there somebody and
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last year after the deadly rally led by
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white nationalists down in
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Charlottesville Virginia this is what
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the president said I think this blame on
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both sides you look at you look at both
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sides
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I think there's blame on both sides and
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you also had people that were very fine
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people on both sides very fine people in
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both sides we're joined right now by
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Julie Yaffe a correspondent for GQ
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magazine and Howard Fineman of course an
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MSNBC news analyst Howard I want to go
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to you about growing up in Pittsburgh on
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squirrel health well Chris I basically
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grew up in the Tree of Life synagogue my
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parents were Sunday School teachers
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there I was bar Mitzvahed there I grew
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up in the the wonderful peaceful
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sprawling Jewish neighborhood of
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Squirrel Hill the time maybe fifty
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percent Jewish maybe a little less than
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that now but just a wonderful place to
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grow up in a place where something like
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this happening was until Saturday at
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around 10 a.m. inconceivable I can tell
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you Chris and we know each other well
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there was no place in America that was
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more American and yet more comfortably
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Jewish than Squirrel Hill
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that comfort is gone and the Jews in
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America are now lining up with every
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other group African Americans going back
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hundreds of years Chinese immigrants
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Hispanics you name it who have the
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Native Americans who have suffered
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violence for political reasons because
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they're regarded as the other they're
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regarded as something foreign something
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not quite American I grew up thinking
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that was impossible so said Julia your
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thoughts I've been reading about you and
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your experiences and
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unfortunately tragically this is not
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completely new do-right and I have to
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say unfortunately it wasn't very
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surprising to me I think people like
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Howard blessedly grew up as Jews in
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America where they did think that this
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was completely unthinkable in America
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and until Saturday's events it was
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unthinkable I unfortunately came from a
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place where it was far more easy to
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imagine the reason we came to the United
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States from the Soviet Union we came as
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refugees fleeing anti-semitism was
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because in the summer of 1988 my mother
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was stuck in the cut in the Russian
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countryside with me I was five my little
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sister was six months old there was no
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phone no connection to the outside world
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and there were very persistent rumors
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going around about a pogrom an
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anti-jewish pogroms and riot and she
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realized that she lived in a country
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where the political climate had become
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so permissive that it was completely
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extremely plausible and that she didn't
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want to raise her kids in a country like
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that and watching my parents response to
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and their heartbreak watching what
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happened at Squirrel Hill my father
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actually called it an old-fashioned
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program has been frankly heartbreaking
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Howard let me ask you because you are a
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communications expert like I try to be
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and talk about these code words because
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I I guess I understand the nationalist
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of National Socialism of course and in
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the era of the 30s when he had fascism
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they all call themselves nationalists
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including a you know the guy in the guy
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whose name escapes me right now from
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Spain Franco of course and was Alenia
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and they're all called themselves
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nationalists and they were awful for
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minorities but this thing about
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globalist I didn't know that was a code
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I did I didn't know this Soros was
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particularly targeted because of his
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faith his religion his Jewishness tell
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me about those code words well Chris to
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to Jewish ears and Jewish eyes the kinds
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of words that lend credence to the
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theory that there's an insidious force
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in the world somehow not quite human
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somehow not responding to your tribe
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your family that somehow has no local
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rules or Allegiance that's been the
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trope that's in the accusation that's
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been used against the Jews for hundreds
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if not thousands of years and that's
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something that even though I did grow up
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as I as I did I know a lot of history
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and that's all too familiar a sound
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because it posits the local people in
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the country as something different from
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the Jews who often for many generations
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have lived there and view themselves as
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much American or Spanish or Russian as
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any other person this is the conundrum
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this is the threat this is the the
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vulnerability that Jews have faced for
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thousands of years can I add just one
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quick thing Chris since I have a lot of
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sources back in Pittsburgh I'm told that
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on another network ie Fox they're
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claiming that all the local political
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officials including the governor and the
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mayor etc are going to be with Donald
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Trump if he goes to Pittsburgh tomorrow
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I'm told authoritative Lee by some of
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those same people and you should ask
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Bill Peduto about this they're not
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having any of it they they might want
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Trump at some time they don't want them
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right now while the Jewish families are
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hurrying under Jewish tradition to bury
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their dead we have the mayor coming on
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in a moment that's straighten it out let
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me go to Julia you know I thought and I
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thought a lot about history
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I thought World War two was the turning
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point that was the assimilation of
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Catholics and Jews that that's what we
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got through the door because of all the
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service our fathers and grandfathers
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fought in that war all of them you
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should see the star of David's over at
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the Arlington Cemetery and all those
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tombs it's unbelievable and along with
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the crosses and I just thought that was
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the door opened but now I wonder about
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certainly not universally in this
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country and it's interesting you
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mentioned World War two because when
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Donald Trump said that he was a
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nationalist he didn't just off-the-cuff
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say he was a nationalist he said listen
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I this is an old-fashioned world at word
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and I know I'm not supposed to say it
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well the reason it's an old-fashioned
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word and the reason you're not supposed
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to say it is because nationalism led us
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to two world wars and
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tens of millions of people dead in
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horrible horrible ways including in the
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Holocaust so there's a reason for that
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stigma and him kind of dredging that up
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and applying it to himself as the
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president of the United States as you
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know as we used to say the leader of the
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free world is frankly horrifying and at
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that point I think the kind of the
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racism and anti-semitism that he had
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been winking at and these dog whistles I
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think became a vuvuzela the one thing I
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would add about George Soros when I was
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a reporter in Russia I heard about
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George Soros as quote-unquote pernicious
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political influence all the time that he
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was not Russian that he was nefariously
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controlling all these people and
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controlling Russian affairs with all his
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money that was in Russia I never
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expected to see it here
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I mean you Howard is right it's a trope
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that goes back hundreds and thousands of
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years but more approximately it I feel
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like it was plucked straight out of
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Putin's playbook thank you my fellow
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Americans for that I think we'll see I
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hope this is a wine-off
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I still want to mark believe in America
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