Rick Perlstein

This is a legal scaffolding to outlaw whole categories of speech, you know, using kind of bad faith arguments about, you know, Americans facing threat abroad.

The idea that these protests are anti-Semitic is a project of gaslighting. After a quick break.

The idea that these protests are anti-Semitic is a project of gaslighting. After a quick break.

The idea that these protests are anti-Semitic is a project of gaslighting. After a quick break.

Yeah, I mean, we're talking about intimidation and humiliation, right? I mean, when I thought of a prison in Louisiana, you know, I immediately thought of this classic movie from 1967, Cool Hand Luke. Cool Hand Luke, I was gonna say, yeah. Right? It was a classic 60s movie. Because it was about a guy who just kind of instinctively defied authority.

Yeah, I mean, we're talking about intimidation and humiliation, right? I mean, when I thought of a prison in Louisiana, you know, I immediately thought of this classic movie from 1967, Cool Hand Luke. Cool Hand Luke, I was gonna say, yeah. Right? It was a classic 60s movie. Because it was about a guy who just kind of instinctively defied authority.

Yeah, I mean, we're talking about intimidation and humiliation, right? I mean, when I thought of a prison in Louisiana, you know, I immediately thought of this classic movie from 1967, Cool Hand Luke. Cool Hand Luke, I was gonna say, yeah. Right? It was a classic 60s movie. Because it was about a guy who just kind of instinctively defied authority.

He went to jail for cutting the heads off parking meters when he was drunk. And he was sent to this prison that was basically run like a concentration camp. And the plot of the movie is basically very simple. This one guy, this one charismatic guy, Paul Newman, refuses to submit.

He went to jail for cutting the heads off parking meters when he was drunk. And he was sent to this prison that was basically run like a concentration camp. And the plot of the movie is basically very simple. This one guy, this one charismatic guy, Paul Newman, refuses to submit.

He went to jail for cutting the heads off parking meters when he was drunk. And he was sent to this prison that was basically run like a concentration camp. And the plot of the movie is basically very simple. This one guy, this one charismatic guy, Paul Newman, refuses to submit.

I quite frequently go to Shabbat dinner at the house of a friend of mine, and I pray alongside the most religiously serious people I know, people who actually study the holy text in Hebrew of Judaism, and they are all Palestinian solidarity activists. So the idea that these protests are anti-Semitic is a project of gaslighting.

I quite frequently go to Shabbat dinner at the house of a friend of mine, and I pray alongside the most religiously serious people I know, people who actually study the holy text in Hebrew of Judaism, and they are all Palestinian solidarity activists. So the idea that these protests are anti-Semitic is a project of gaslighting.

I quite frequently go to Shabbat dinner at the house of a friend of mine, and I pray alongside the most religiously serious people I know, people who actually study the holy text in Hebrew of Judaism, and they are all Palestinian solidarity activists. So the idea that these protests are anti-Semitic is a project of gaslighting.

If you look at some of the people he pardoned for January 6th, one guy was wearing a Camp Auschwitz t-shirt. If you look at the Doge worker who was fired because of all his tweets saying they were discovered – You know, saying I wouldn't marry anyone outside my ethnic group if you paid me or I want more eugenics. Right. And the vice president of the United States says, oh, he's not such a bad guy.

If you look at some of the people he pardoned for January 6th, one guy was wearing a Camp Auschwitz t-shirt. If you look at the Doge worker who was fired because of all his tweets saying they were discovered – You know, saying I wouldn't marry anyone outside my ethnic group if you paid me or I want more eugenics. Right. And the vice president of the United States says, oh, he's not such a bad guy.

If you look at some of the people he pardoned for January 6th, one guy was wearing a Camp Auschwitz t-shirt. If you look at the Doge worker who was fired because of all his tweets saying they were discovered – You know, saying I wouldn't marry anyone outside my ethnic group if you paid me or I want more eugenics. Right. And the vice president of the United States says, oh, he's not such a bad guy.

You know, give the kid another chance. Right. Compare that to Mahmoud Khalil.

You know, give the kid another chance. Right. Compare that to Mahmoud Khalil.

You know, give the kid another chance. Right. Compare that to Mahmoud Khalil.

Well, I mean, first of all, it's a very clever strategy, right?