The Big Revealing Problem With The ‘Christians Only’ Syrian Refugee Plan
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It didn’t take long for Republicans to find a novel way to politicize the terrorist attacks in Paris, and not just through the normal bleating about doing what President Obama is already doing, but doing it more/better/louder. Now they have made the refugees fleeing terrorist violence in Syria into a political wedge, and they’re doing it in the most obvious, despicable fashion imaginable. Refusing to take any refugees from Syria wasn’t enough for some Republicans, many of whom have floated the suggestion that we take only Christian refugees from Syria.
The political benefits of this are obvious; you get to simultaneously make irrationally panicked people feel like you’ve got their safety at heart, pander to the “good” Christian people in your base by identifying them as the good guy, while also pandering to the Pamela Geller types who hate Muslims even more than they love Jesus. Meanwhile, you force Democrats into a position where they’re defending an easily-demonized group of people.
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The success of this plan, though, depends on never uttering it within earshot of a reporter with more than two functioning brain cells, a feat which former Florida Governor and current Republican presidential wishful Jeb Bush couldn’t quite pull off. I’d like to give Kasie Hunt credit for making this look easy, but it actually was easy:
Jeb!: You’re a Christian. you can prove you’re a Christian.
Kasie Hunt: How?
Jeb!: I think you can prove it. If you can’t prove it, then you know, you err on the side of caution.
So, ISIS has all these sophisticated capabilities, but they can’t…READ MORE
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