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When you’re too much of a reactionary bigot even for the Lt. Governor of Texas

That's really something.  But let's face it, it's only because his bigotry includes Jews as well as Muslims that all the local Republicans are turning on him.  After all, that kind of rhetoric from "Bo French" doesn't fit with the Trump's valiant campaign to crush fake anti-semitism on campus (imagine if someone on campus had actually said this?).  Bo's response to the furor:   antisemitism has no place in the Republican party (Islamophobia on the other hand…).

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