Bernie 2020: The Hate is Coming from Inside The House

Jeremy Fassler
4 min readApr 16, 2019
Photograph courtesy of AP

In one of the most famous moments of the 2008 campaign, Republican nominee John McCain calmly rebuked a woman who called Barack Obama “an Arab,” by saying he was “a decent family man…who I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues.” It remains remarkable not just for McCain’s grace under pressure, but because it is impossible to imagine the current Republican occupant of the…

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Jeremy Fassler

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum. Bylines: The New York Times, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, etc. Co-author of The Deadwood Bible with Matt Zoller Seitz.