Since When Does This Matter?

By Matthew Yglesias
Karen Tumulty and Greg Sargent both seem to think it's some kind of a problem for Rudy Giuliani that his new South Carolina campaign co-chair is a huge racist. I'm not so sure. This, after all, is the same world where George Will can publish columns praising George Wallace for "giving an aggrieved minority a voice" without mentioning that the aggrieved minority in question was America's smallish but influential white supremacist minority.

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