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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

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New York Values: What Tiny Ted Will Never Get About The Big Town

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BY JOE CONASON Exactly what does Ted Cruz mean when he sneers about “New York values” as a reason to reject Donald Trump? Disparaging New York has long been a favorite trope for reactionary loudmouths, always with an ugly undertone of bigotry against racial, ethnic, religious and, more recently, sexual minorities. Demagogues denigrating New York come and go with boring predictability – and the nation’s greatest city will continue to thrive long after the Texas […]

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Joe Conason
Joe Conason
Joe Conason is an American journalist, author and liberal political commentator. He writes a column for Salon.com and has written a number of books, including Big Lies, which addresses what he says are myths spread about liberals by conservatives.