Friday, during his weekly appearance on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said President Donald Trump was using “mustard gas on our democracy” by advocating for redistricting in Texas.
Brooks said, “Let’s do a little ethical experiment here. You are in World War I, the Germans used mustard gas on civilians, and it helps them. Do you then decide, OK, we’re going to use mustard gas on civilians? What Trump ordered Abbott to do in Texas is mustard gas on our democracy. Some people would feel, OK, that was terrible, we have to fight back, it’s horrible, but we’re going to fight back because that’s war. Gavin Newsom is leaping into this with both legs. And to me, there’s a moral stain that
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