The GOP’s Reckless Refugee Rhetoric
by John Avolon
How the Republicans’ campaign against Syrian refugees disgraces their party.
Republicans need to reacquaint themselves with Robert Ray.
The Republican Governor of Iowa from 1969 to 1983, Robert Ray opened his state to help settle refugees after the Vietnam War, right in the middle of America’s heartland. “I didn’t think we could just sit here idly and say, ‘Let those people die’. We wouldn’t want the rest of the world to say that about us if we were in the same situation,” said Ray. “Do unto others as you’d have them do unto you.”
He led when others followed and won another two terms. People have a funny way of rewarding moral courage at the end of the day. After all, it’s so rare to see in a politician.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/17/the-gop-s-reckless-refugee-rhetoric.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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