'While a sliver of the old (or is it new again?) right continue to criticize Churchill, he has largely been viewed across the political spectrum as heroic and indispensable,' writes mattklewis
Of course, the same ridiculous slur could have been leveled against Churchill after his 1941 visit to Washington. America had already been funding Great Britain’s war effort, thanks to the Lend-Lease Act of 1941. Then, in the wake of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany’s subsequent declaration of war, Churchill asked the United States to delay confronting Japan and focus instead on Germany., he has largely been viewed across the political spectrum as heroic and indispensable.
What would the rightwingers now calling Zelensky a “welfare queen” say about the former Republican president who popularized the term? By the logic they employ, one imagines he was at the very least a welfareBy transferring these deep-seated attitudes about race, they hope to apply this same dog-whistle to the Jewish president of Ukraine, who has for almost a year bravely fended off an invasion by a nuclear-armed power with exponentially greater military might.
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