It has always — always<\/i> — been the outsiders who have forced America to live-up to its ideals.<\/p>\n
Once upon a time, because they considered the Pledge of Allegiance a form of idolatry, Jehovah’s Witnesses were set upon by mobs<\/a> in the public streets, beaten, arrested for disturbing the peace, and then jailed awaiting trial without benefit of medical care — in this country. It was Jewish lawyers who went to the courthouses to defend them, and much modern First Amendment jurisprudence flows from those cases.<\/p>\n It wasn’t smug Southern Baptists who supported the civil rights movement of the 1960s. No. They<\/i> fired the rare brave pastor who expressed support for blacks, and on a few occasions hung them in effigy.<\/p>\n It isn’t wealthy Republicans — who routinely visit clubs, restaurants, and golf courses where costs are held down by using illegal labor — who are defending the targets of Trump’s inapt Twitter attack — Go home? Here<\/i> is home, you pathetic idiot. — on the four Congresswomen.<\/p>\n Indeed, FOX News happily piled-on by dishonestly characterizing Ilhan Omar’s defense of herself as ‘profanity-laced’ — though the profanity arose by quoting Trump’s own words.<\/p>\n Ilhan Omar delivers heated, profanity-laced attack on President Trump<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Watch it yourself; I thought it was firm, as tasteful as circumstances permit, and a credit to her.<\/p>\n Rep. Ilhan Omar responds to Trump's racist attacks against her and other congresswomen pic.twitter.com\/0c8SqWedGV<\/a><\/p>\n — TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) July 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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