Opinion: This country is in need of a miracle
By Colbert I. King Colbert I. King Columnist covering D.C. issues and politics Email Bio Follow April 19 at 7:26 PM This is a week for the celebration of miracles: Passover, the deliverance of Israelites from slavery in Egypt; Easter, the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the tomb; Lailat al Bara’ah , for Muslims, the Night of Forgiveness, when God grants forgiveness of sins.
Nowhere is that disturbing condition more in evidence than in our politics. And Washington is ground zero for the animosity, clashing and gnashing of teeth that is roiling public life. His disrespect for immigrants and people of color is deliberate. He keeps the flame of Islamophobia alive with demonizing and inflammatory rhetoric. Trump is a 21st-century George Wallace and Joseph McCarthy rolled into one.
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