The Republican party has lots of bigots.
To put it very bluntly and very simply, when Senator Josh Hawley calls for an end to "the cosmopolitan experiment" and says America isn't and must not be the "rest of the world"…
— Alexandra Erin (@AlexandraErin) July 18, 2019
This is white nationalism. Explicit. And laced through with overt anti-Semitism.
So bizarre: Republicans literally CAN'T STOP SAYING WEIRD NAZI AND/OR RUSSIAN STUFF. "Cosmopolitan" (космополит) was THE dogwhistle word that Stalin used to denigrate Jews and call them unpatriotic. It's like the GOP is *possessed* by fascism. https://t.co/rbFOjLZcZG https://t.co/OGzqlXYDq0
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 18, 2019
The GOP turn toward explicit ethnonationalism continues. Hawley's statement lines up frighteningly closely with what I outlined in November 2016 https://t.co/hIZpNWCq1s https://t.co/W6VStKwgo6
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) July 19, 2019
1) Anyone w a Stanford BA in history and a JD from Yale (like Hawley) knows *exactly* the implications of “cosmopolitan.” https://t.co/7BmcNxPsTp
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) July 19, 2019
Again, not “everyone” knows this. But Hawley must.
2) America is great precisely *because* its ideals and embrace are universal. https://t.co/VXUJPdR2DR
If you're Jewish and the use of "cosmopolitan" doesn't scare you, read some history https://t.co/yc5xTCN2ck
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) July 18, 2019
We're not just fighting racism—we're also fighting people who deny that racism is racism. There's just no debate: "Cosmopolitan elite" is hoary antisemitic code.
— David Nir (@DavidNir) July 19, 2019
Those who'd use this phrase *and* those who'd deny the bigotry inherent in this phrase are enemies of anti-racism
somehow not surprised that the right-wing senator who pretends liberal professors are the true elite has to lie about what those professors think to make his case https://t.co/eVmg7uBSdT
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 25, 2019
Sad! 