Peter King, a bigot, got a glowing send-off from Chuck Schumer. The American right thrives on such generosity, writes zakcheneyrice
Representative Peter King, right, with President Donald Trump. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/Shutterstock In a column for Politico last week, John F. Harris wrote about what he called a “centrist bias, flowing from reporters and sources alike” on Capitol Hill. This prejudicial impulse, he argues, orients the national understanding of political behavior toward “an admiration for difference-splitting, a conviction that politics should be a tidier and more rational process than it usually is.
Instead of condemning the Republican Party’s bigotry and treating its members like the existential threats to democracy they have become, some Democrats have clung to an ideal whereby ideological common ground and even bonhomie can still be found with the other side, regardless of their differences.
In addition to fundraising on behalf of the IRA, King was also among the NYPD apologists who sought to blame Eric Garner for his own death by chokehold in 2014. “If he had not had asthma, and a heart condition, and was so obese, he would not have died from this,” King told CNN after a grand jury declined to indict former police officer Daniel Pantaleo for wrapping his forearm around Garner’s throat and squeezing it until the 43-year-old black man succumbed to a fatal asthma attack.
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