Way out in the western part of the great state of Maryland is a
mountainous land that is mostly rural and white and working class, more Winter’s Bone than The Wire.
This corner of the state has been represented approximately forever by
Roscoe Bartlett, an 86-year-old Republican who has something of a
reputation of being “one of the sane ones” on that side of the aisle.
But ol’ Roscoe is in a tough re-election fight this year, so he’s had to
maybe pander a little bit, to improve his poll numbers. Like, telling
your constituents at a town hall meeting that federally subsidized
student loans will basically lead to a new Holocaust, a Holocaust
perpetrated by the millions of German-Americans who are just lurking
among us, just waiting for their orders from their dead Nazi overlords
to rise up and slaughter the Jews — that’s what they want to hear,
right? That’ll get votes?
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