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Values Voters Summit forces moderate Republicans to face some crushing facts.

In a book geared toward the general reader, scholar Anne Norton confronts Islamophobia in the West and argues against the persistent notion that Islam and the West are locked in a cosmic battle.

I’m not arguing that Islamophobia is racist, or that Islamophobes are racists, because that’s not quite what’s happening. For one thing, Islamophobes embrace ex-Muslims like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and racists wouldn’t (indeed couldn’t) do the same. But consider the similarities: the Islamophobe must assume Muslims suffer some sort of pre-Islamic inferiority, sufficient to explain how some (largely non-white) people—actually, a lot of people—not only fell for Islam in the first place, but then stayed down. How long do enforced ideologies last? Nazism: twelve years. Communism: some decades. Islam: Fourteen centuries and counting.

Israel doesn’t win him votes, but picking Ryan was a loser for him.

Why she has placed the heartbeat center stage.

According to a recent essay by Sen. John Danforth, she just doesn’t, so it’s not.

There was a time when politicians could get away with bashing gay people because they were invisible. That time appears to have passed.

But lacks the religious fervor to connect with 75% of GOP.

Who is the “we” Bruni is listening to?

Even Republicans can’t stomach her Islamophobic conspiracy theories.