As you probably know, Rep. Cohen responded to the President’s call for civility by calling the Republican party a bunch of Nazis. Because that’s what he does; and I don’t really expect bigots like him to change. Cohen is precisely the sort of person who can’t feel big until he’s made everybody around him small; and since people like that rarely have the ability to change things in any real capacity, Steve Cohen will be a bitter, spiteful man until the day he dies.
But I do have a request for TN-0[9] Democrats: can you please find a primary challenger for him that isn’t a racist himself or herself, this time around? Your last two primaries have been the political equivalent of the Iran-Iraq war: the most moral option in both was to root for injuries.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
PS: What you said about Max Schmeling was a lie, Representative Cohen. He was never a Nazi and he personally rescued two Jewish children during Kristallnacht.
Sorry: I don’t know why that set me off and other, more immediately obnoxious comments don’t. Probably because Schmeling was what my dad called a stand-up guy when it came to helping Joe Louis out.
PPS: He clearly made me so angry that I got the district wrong. TN-09, not TN-08.
There is one good side to all of this: The Democrats stayed civil longer than I thought they would.