I started last week being ticked off at Bill Maher for his suggestion that members of the Democratic Party’s base are too obsessed with so-called “identity politics.” As part of his tirade, Maher mentioned Democrats lamenting perceived racism in sports–something that was remarkably tone-deaf in light of, well, racism in sports. Something tells me Adam […]
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