Dave Levinthal author of a piece at the Columbia Journalism Review, describing how ICE and CBP are possibly breaking the law and making it impossible for reporters to access information through FOIA requests...they have become Arnie and Jon discuss Democratic leadership’s inexcusable failure to speak honestly about the racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, anti-LGBTQ bigotry and Christian Nationalism that animated Charlie Kirk’s ideology and undergirds the organizations he built. It should be easy to express empathy and denounce political violence without engaging in revisionist myth telling that normalizes the hate-filled rhetoric and machinery that fuels the Trump regime’s assault on our classrooms, our communities and our democracy. Yet that simple task is proving too much for too many in America’s opposition party. Rather than speak simple truths, leading Democrats in the House and Senate have approved resolutions that recast a white supremacist movement as politics done right. Against this backdrop, we appreciate scholars like Olufemi Taiwo and Jeff Sharlet for correcting the record.