It's been quite the day on the electric Twitter machine. Of course, the president* dealt with The Omarosa Problem in his usual calm and reasoned way before moving on to attempt to douse the fire he lit under his own ass by babbling about the firing of Peter Strzok from the FBI. Then, the electric Twitter machine sent us to this piece in Politico by the uncle of White Man in the White House, Stephen Miller.

I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, who is an educated man and well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.

I shudder at the thought of what would have become of the Glossers had the same policies Stephen so coolly espouses—the travel ban, the radical decrease in refugees, the separation of children from their parents, and even talk of limiting citizenship for legal immigrants—been in effect when Wolf-Leib made his desperate bid for freedom. The Glossers came to the U.S. just a few years before the fear and prejudice of the “America First” nativists of the day closed U.S. borders to Jewish refugees. Had Wolf-Leib waited, his family would likely have been murdered by the Nazis along with all but seven of the 2,000 Jews who remained in Antopol. I would encourage Stephen to ask himself if the chanting, torch-bearing Nazis of Charlottesville, whose support his boss seems to court so cavalierly, do not envision a similar fate for him.

Whoosh. Other than that time in Sports Illustrated when Bryant Gumbel's mom gave him up, I couldn't remember an incident of family-on-family media crime like that until later on Monday, when Bobby Goodlatte, the son of retiring House Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte, climbed on the electric Twitter machine and apologized...to Peter Strzok.

Republican Thanksgiving dinners this November are just going to be so damn lit. But it took a true outsider to close down the electric Twitter machine for the day.

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Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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