Fascists Making Deserts, Calling It Peace
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If you want to know why a lot of people hold
#Israel
's government responsible for the catastrophic slaughter taking place in southern Israel and
#Gaza
over the last two weeks, just look to the political philosophy of its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. It's pure
#fascism
.
The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong.
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@SuhailMatar_
I was an undergraduate
@UVA
from 1984-88. There was a kid in my second year Middle East politics class that claimed to spend his summer volunteering for the
#IDF
. He would brag that he couldn't wait to graduate so he could go kill
#Arabs
in
#Lebanon
.
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Liz Magill was a professor of mine in law school. She is a wonderful human being, and is by several orders of magnitude superior to the plutocratic hedge fund critics who demanded her scalp.
Liz Magill is a brilliant, kind, good, and wise person. She ran into a perfect storm, and the dispassionate analyst in me understands why it resulted in her resignation from Penn. But I’d take her for university president—or law school dean—in a heartbeat.
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Read this final message from Dr. Mustafa Elmasry of the Gaza Mental Health Program:
#Gaza
“There will be a day where we confront our oppressor and demand justice.
Given humanity's condition during these interesting times, this day will not be in this world”
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Table of contents for my forthcoming book, Islamic Jurisprudence, Islamic Law and Modernity
@LockwoodPress
@UofTLaw
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A thread:
@UofT
's Vice-President Human Resources and Equity, and its Provost today jointly released a memo about the
#AzarovaAffair
, the
#censure
and the University's response. It's so inadequate that it is shocking the University's leadership released it.
@censureutoronto
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@CIJAinfo
Honest question: have you criticized any aspect of Israeli policy toward Palestinians, ever? Settlements, administrative detention, killing journalists, imprisoning children, destroying universities, municipal records? A lot of really low-hanging fruit there.
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This letter of
#EdwardSaid
, written in 1989, but only published posthumously in 2022, is even more powerful and salient given the apocalyptic violence
#Israel
has unleased since
#October7
.
An Open Letter to American-Jewish Intellectuals
@JewishCurrents
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It's funny that people speak of the
#UAE
"betraying" the
#Palestinians
. The UAE is probably one of the most
#totalitarian
states on the planet, complete with a
#MinistryOfHappiness
.
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My piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education on the crisis in American colleges is live. Please share widely in all your networks. The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom Must Go
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I plan on teaching Monday while wearing a kufiyya to spite that anti-Palestinian bigot. I encourage all university professors to do the same.
ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt compares a Palestinian keffiyeh (scarf) to a Nazi swastika
Where is the accountability from
@MSNBC
?
@mehdirhasan
@sarahleah1
@bridgeinit
@PeterBeinart
@tparsi
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I am happy and thankful that the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and Understanding awarded my translation of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi’s The Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions From Judicial Rulings won second place for translation from Arabic into English
@yalepress
#جائزة_الشيخ_حمد_للترجمة
فئة الترجمة من اللغة العربية إلى اللغة الإنجليزية
المركز الثاني
محمد حسام فاضل
عن ترجمة الإحكام في تمييز الفتاوی عن الأحكام للقرافي
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@fivefactorcap
@itslaylas
@harrisonjaime
Instead of threatening us with Trump why don’t you tell
@POTUS
that his policies are disgraceful.
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@UofT
has declined to adopt the
#IHRA
definition of
#antisemitism
. It endorses respectful dialogue in the context of controversy, which is terrific news for students, faculty and the people of Ontario.
@UTLawUnion
@UTLaw
@palestineforum_
@censureutoronto
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@GEICO
In case you missed it, here's
@amnesty
international's report describing
#Israel
as an
#apartheid
state:
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Rumor has it that
@UofT
has hired a "crisis communications consultant" to handle the fallout from the
#AzarovaAffair
because the one thing that it has done from the beginning is to refuse to communicate.
#HireValentinaNow
!
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I just left
@Columbia
where I got to talk to students and faculty at the
#Palestine
encampment. It was a personally very moving experience. The students were well-organized, peaceful and determined. It was full of love. Sadly, the administration has put the campus on lockdown.
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The imperviousness of the myth that
#Ghazali
destroyed
#science
and
#philosophy
in the Muslim world is evidence of the despotic power of
#Orientalism
. Frank Griffels’s latest book is a remarkable contribution in correcting these myths.
@MarginaliaROB
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The
#AzarovaAffair
is about
#AcademicFreedom
. But it is also about
#AntiPalestinianism
at the highest levels of
@UofT
's administration. (1/8)
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@axios
In fact, passing BBB is crucial to tame inflation because it lowers the costs of so many things crucial to the budget of so many Americans.
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A superb interview with
@NathanThrall
on why the problem isn’t
#Netanyahu
but the systematic ethnic domination that is at the heart of
#Zionism
and
#Israel
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One of Carl Schmitt's most important attacks on
#liberalism
rests on his doubts regarding
#liberals
' commitments to their ideals. He understood that the willingness of liberals to betray those ideals was a systematic weakness that allowed for the restoration of authoritarianism.
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Islamic Jurisprudence, Islamic Law, and Modernity: New book by Professor Mohammad H. Fadel via
@UTLaw
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@dbgreenwald
This is the denouement of the failure of
#Israel
to imagine what peace could like. Since the founding of the state,
#Gaza
has been a place where surplus human beings have been dumped, in the words of a US diplomat at the time, "to wither."
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An important response from the leadership of
@uoftmedicine
to calls from third parties to discipline faculty who have publicly expressed solidarity with the people of
#Palestine
. Bravo for standing up for the values of
@UofT
!
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Just finished listening to
@bdaiwi_historia
's interesting conversation with
@WQuisay
of the
#politicaltheology
of contemporary Sunni
#neotraditionalism
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@NathanThrall
@FleurHassanN
Every ethnocratic state defends its actions as necessary to protect its people. And there’s always only “one” state of that ethnos — one Germany, one France, etc.
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But this was not about Dean Chemerinsky's personal character: it was about the role of institutions in contributing to the unfreedom of
#Palestinians
. Before the student could even mention
#Palestine
, she was grabbed. Clearly, she was marked as a troublemaker by her appearance.
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If institutions vigorously - not grudgingly, and not with the boilerplate denunciations as a precondition for allowing
#Palestine
speech - simply granted the same rights to Palestine events as they do for all other events, the temperature on campuses would go down dramatically.
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#Egypt
under
#Sisi
is making unprecedented strides in de-development: how many other governments can brag that they succeeded in increasing illiteracy?
#AxisOfAutocracy
#MyFavoriteDictator
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Islamic Jurisprudence, Islamic Law, and Modernity | Lockwood Press
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Film shows chilling climate for Muslims in post-Charlie Hebdo
#France
by
@ggreenwald
#Paris
#ISIS
#Islamophobia
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Let me humbly suggest that if administrators stopped trying to ghost
#Palestinians
, they would not need to interrupt the decorum of dinner parties.
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Shout out to
@JustinTrudeau
for reciprocating with a gift of
#Canadian
chocolate produced by
#Syrian
refugees in
#NovaScotia
#HoorayForCanada
!
Speaker Pelosi gives Canada PM Justin Trudeau chocolate and wine after losing bet over NBA finals
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@alexbkane
Literally a week after three Palestinian-American college kids s were shot, with one being paralyzed from the chest down.
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Thanks to everyone who asked
@Twitter
to restore my Twitter account. I’m happy to report your efforts were successful!
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@AkyolinEnglish
Why do you think something like dress is about a relationship with God? I don't think Muslim jurists would have said that: they would have justified it on the ground of the public good and the necessity of preserving public morality.
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Let's call this the "ghosting" reflex of administrators toward advocacy for
#Palestinians
: a profound desire that they would just disappear because it's going to bring grief to the institution and their own lives as administrators, if not their careers.
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The gaslighting reflex manifests itself in crediting Palestinian opposition to
#Zionism
in Jew-hatred rather than the well-documented political injuries Jewish nationalism and the state of
#Israel
has imposed, and continues to impose, on the
#Palestinians
as a people.
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Conversation with Professor Mohammad H. Fadel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
@UTLaw
@UCBerkeley
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As GOP Pushes Repeal, Obamacare Has Never Been More Popular: NBC News/WSJ poll - NBC News
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I am happy to announce that I received a three-year grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council to fund my project on Islam and sacrifice.
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Dr. Sofyan Taya, the President of Gaza's Islamic , whom Israeli bombs killed in his home, along with his children - one a physician and the other a dentist - was an accomplished physicist despite the odds facing him as a Palestinian refugee in a concentration camp. 🧵(1 of 9)
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@LarrySabato
I don't know if you realize this, but drinking water while waiting in line triggers certain wireless protocols on Dominion voting machines to select Democratic candidates.
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@NaomiAKlein
What ought to be scandalous is that the
@the_cra
considers that organization to be a
#charity
, donations to which are tax deductible. How can financing mercenaries be a charitable purpose? How does that further the public interest?
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Finally! Two and a half years after the paper was first accepted, it’s out.
#IslamicInternationalLaw
#IslamicLegalHistory
#PrivateInternationalLaw
#TWAIL
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Only restoration of the offer to Azarova will resuscitate the
#IHRP
because nothing short of that will satisfy our partners that we have repudiated
#JusticeSpiro
's interference in the IHRA's affairs.
#AzarovaAffair
#censure
@CAUT_ACPPU
@UTLaw
@UofT
@IHRP_UofT
@AltIhrp
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Curious why
@UofT
has been censured for its conduct in the
#AzarovaAffair
? Check out this slide presentation prepared by
@CAUT_ACPPU
#HireValentinaNow
#PalestineFreeSpeechException
#PalestinianRightsAreHumanRights
…
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@mjschwartzman
@NewYorker
Does anyone else think it's bizarre that the pro-life movement should be anti-gun control?
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Listen to
#Israeli
youth earnestly discuss
#ethniccleansing
and
#genocide
and even giggle as they do it.
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The refusal to restore the offer to Dr. Azarova reveals a deliberate indifference, if not contempt, for the interests of our law students, who pay top $$$ to attend
#Canada
's "leading" law school. Where is the concern for student welfare?
@UTLawSLS
@UTLaw
@UTLaw
@CAUT_ACPPU
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@AkyolinEnglish
I don't know where you get this: like no scholar says this outside a handful of Wahhabis. The standard position of Sunnis is that a sahih hadith -- to say nothing of hasan hadiths -- is that its provenance is probable, zanni.
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#CherifBassiouni
’s reflections on his imminent death. He was a remarkable man, a true inspiration for
#Egyptians
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Ghosting
#Palestinians
is the first way institutions violate "the principles of social cooperation among free and equal [persons]." But there is a second way as well, which is best characterized as the "gaslighting" reflex.
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Fighting anti-Semitism (and those who cry ‘wolf’ about it) at the University of Toronto
#SpiroScandal
@UofT
@UTLaw
@censureutoronto
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One of my recently graduated students from
@UTLaw
sent around this email today, which I am posting with his permission.
@UofT
@censureutoronto
@CAUT_ACPPU
@AltIhrp
@IHRP_UofT
#AzarovaAffair
#HireValentinaNow
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“Sealy-Harrington, who is Black and who signed the lawyer’s letter supporting the students’ right to criticize Israel, received emails calling him a “f***ing baboon,” “f***ing monkey,” “c*** sucker” and threatening, “You will get yours motherf***er.”
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My colleagues
@Heidi__Matthews
and
@BhabhaFaisal
and I have just published a piece on the significance of the recent
#ICJ
decision ordering provisional measures against
#Israel
to protect
#Palestinians
from the risk of
#genocide
.
@ConversationCA
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After Revelation, Where Does Reason Lead?
#Islam
#divinespeech
#theology
#Razi
#Ghazali
#Zahirism
#ijtihad
via
@Renovatio
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@sarahleah1
So many others in similar circumstances. All children of
#Saudis
abroad should be allowed to leave.
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The same indifference to
#Palestinians
that allows
#Israel
to engage in repeated massacres of refugees and their descendants explains
@UofT
’s and
@UTLaw
’s willingness to do the bidding of
#JusticeSpiro
in the
#AzarovaAffair
.
#HireValentinaNow
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@danaelkurd
Fair enough, but let’s not forget a generation’s worth of rabid anti-Shia and anti-Iran incitement in the
#ArabWorld
followed by years of suicide-bombings directed against Shia civilians in Iraq, largely by
#SunniArabs
. There is sadly plenty of sickness to go around.
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#EthnicCleansing
to
#Zionism
is a feature, not a bug.
The difference between right wing Zionism and liberal Zionism is one of degree not kind: how many Palestinians they are willing to kill, and how much discrimination against the natives they are willing to tolerate: 1/7
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The Hanafi scholar Abu'l Barakat al-Nasafi was called "sulṭān ʿulamāʾ al-sharq wa’l-ṣīn (the chief of scholars of the east and of China)." How cool is that?
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@tparsi
.
@POTUS
needs to go big here:
#RecognizePalestineNow
! Prove that he is capable of meeting this moment. It would be like Nixon going to China. It would undermine
#Hamas
and
#Natanyahu
, promote peace and finally allow the “pivot”!
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Let's make
#April15
#ShowUsYourTaxesDayDonald
#US
citizens demand
#transparency
and
#ethics
from
#POTUS
@jentaub
@POTUS
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Proud of Egyptians who use whatever platforms they have to give voice for
#Palestine
. Stop the
#genocide
@POTUS
!
#RecognizePalestineNow
!
"I feel bad for the American people because the coverage here is quite biased"
After winning first place at the JP Mordan Squash Tournament of Champions, squash champion Ali Farag speaks about media misinformation in the West and the failure of political leaders to deal with the
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#SpiroScandal
via
@wordpressdotcom
The official record regarding the
#SpiroInquiry
before the Canadian Judicial Council is now publicly available. Click on the image of the document to review the record and reach your own conclusions.
@censureutoronto
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Marion Katz from NYU to speak this week on the medieval genre of biographical dictionaries of Muslim jurists.
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#Zionist
#cancelculture
’s attacks on a
#Toronto
public school teacher make it to the
@washingtonpost
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As I've said Israelis are delusional. They simply live in an alternative moral universe. They don't think that ethnic cleansing, expropriation of property, killing, terror, etc., constitutes anything "wrong" to the Palestinians.
Israeli military Captain. Daniel Hatniel serving as deputy of Israel’s West Bank intelligence command & ex-spox of an MK
“The little finger of a soldier of ours is worth as much of Gaza… Amalek like Hamas symbolize an idea.. There must not be one of the Amalek left on earth”
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The simple reality is that unless Dr. Azarova's offer is restored immediately, this will be the third year in a row that the
#IHRP
will lack a director.
@IHRP_UofT
@AltIhrp
. If technical timing concerns were why the original offer was aborted those reasons are now moot.
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The hashtag
#TexasTaliban
is just gratuitous
#Islamophobia
and should be replaced with
#ChristianNationalism
Please Stop Using
#Islam
to Critique the Abortion Ban: It Only Excuses the Very Christian, Very White Roots of Anti-Choice Movements
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University of Toronto rescinded an offer to a professor over a donor's objections to her scholarship on Palestine and the Israeli occupation.
Now, U of T is getting censured.
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Three well-paid university professionals, two in advancement, and one an assistant dean of the faculty of law, aided and abetted this violation without any meaningful resistance to
#JusticeSpiro
's improper request. Moreover, two of the three are themselves lawyers.
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What a week for firsts at elite law schools in the US! First,
@UVALaw
gets its first African-American editor-in-chief of the
@VirginiaLawRev
and now
@HarvLRev
elects it’s first Muslim-American president
@MuslimAdvocates
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What is it exactly do we claim leadership in? Is it zealous advocacy or is it creative strategies to cover up the wrongdoing of the privileged? What kind of lawyers do we wish to train?
#HireValentinaNow
!
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@YairWallach
Everything in human history indicates that the powerful and the powerless are capable of criminality and justice, although the immunity of the powerful make them much more susceptible to the gravitational attraction of immorality.
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These injuries are not limited to the
#Palestinians
physically under the control of the Israeli state, but reaches into the lives of Palestinian refugees in neighboring states, where they were forced to take refuge after
#Zionist
militias and Israel expelled them.
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"Muslim soldiers of the Indian Army guarding the gate of Qubbat As-Sakhrah, Jerusalem, 1917.
#WW1
image for
#Ramadan
http://t.co/5WAbLr651j"
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@UofT
and
@UTLaw
is clearly in four-corners' mode, trying to run out the clock on the
#AzarovaAffair
and avoiding restoring the offer to Dr. Azarova on the flimsy pretext of reviewing the
#IHRP
. No one should accept that this claim is in good faith.
@CAUT_ACPPU
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@samuelmoyn
@nikobowie
I wonder if the question he asks, read against our history, is more a function of the place of judicial review in a constitutional design intentionally designed to thwart democratic majorities at every turn, a feature that will only get worse given recent demographic changes?
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