Morning from the East Coast. Curtis here to make a couple of observations. With the terrible events in Gaza, the antisemitism, and with religion mixed up with politics, and the governing of nations, Geoff Robberts reminded me of the fictional steps some of the characters in Time of Ends took. Look for Gil Lehrman, Ari and Hannah Liefman.
And see what happens to: “Louie LaFontaine, a representative from Houma, Louisiana, was a Holocaust denier . . .
“Nobody knew why. He had covered up his early white supremacist leanings well. Might have been parental animosity to Ben Shapiro of Shapiro’s Mercantile in . . . LA. Not like old Ben got rich selling Lee jeans at the same price as the Walmart up in New Iberia. Not like he had a big house or an obnoxious family. No, Ben was a Jew, and the LaFontaine clan took a visceral dislike to Jews. He whispered his hatred ever so quietly; there never was a public scandal when Louie got elected.
“However, Louie sat on the House Committee on Education and Labor. His stance on student loan forgiveness was a thorn in the progressives’ side for the last two years. This wasn’t unexpected since Louie earned an associate degree from an in-state school and had no debt issues himself.
“When lobby groups took up the Holocaust education cause, Louie found a million ways to stifle any robust attempt by an already reluctant secretary of education. That might have been the end of the process until Louie was overheard on an open mike vehemently denying that it ever happened. No Treblinka, no Auschwitz, no forced labor, no gas, no piles of emaciated bodies.
“Bill went ballistic and got another warning note to Reuters drafted. Took a deep breath and called his nephew instead.”
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