Marisa Kabas: Santos’ election has provided a valuable service for his district by exposing something deeper than a fraudulent résumé: the dirty laundry of a local GOP.
. Suddenly this Brazilian, Jewish, immigrant, gay, CUNY Baruch graduate and Goldman Sachs alum was possibly none of those things.
It’s been equal parts fascinating and horrifying to see the area of Long Island where I grew up making national headlines. I always understood it to be a fairly liberal district, though throughout the ’90s and the aughts it was represented by Republican mainstay Peter King. But when a new district map was drawn in 2012, King’s district was redrawn, and Jericho and its neighboring towns became part of a more liberal district represented by Democrat Steve Israel.
It was an incredibly rich display: a group of steadfast Donald Trump supporters convincing themselves they’d taken some moral high ground by denouncing a proven liar.
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