The baying for the resignation of Gorka is illegitimate.\u00a0 The trigger was the claim of membership in a historically pro-Nazi organization by one of it’s members, a claim denied by Gorka, his appearance in public with a Hungarian medal on his chest and a rummaging through his parents’ past.<\/p>\n
These are dangerously insufficient reasons to sack an individual.\u00a0 What better way to smear someone whose views you dislike than by claiming he’s a fellow traveler (as I recall, this happened frequently in the McCarthy era)?\u00a0 As for the medal, I’ve worn in public a Soviet-era border guard medal that I picked up in the former Eastern Bloc, but I don’t claim it to indicate anything about my political views.\u00a0 I’ve seen lots of people wearing Soviet kitsch without being accused of being reactionaries.\u00a0 Finally, guilt-by-association, while a great rhetorical device for manipulating opinion, is not a valid argument.<\/p>\n
Investigate, by all means.\u00a0 Ask the man for his views, and vilify him for answers you don’t agree with.\u00a0 Be wary, and skeptical of his pronouncements.\u00a0 Publicize any bigoted, racist polemic that he utters, and call him on it.\u00a0 But you can’t call for his resignation without good cause, and inuendo is not good enough.\u00a0 There are plenty of other Trump appointees that have already<\/em> done more than enough to be turfed from office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The baying for the resignation of Gorka is illegitimate.\u00a0 The trigger was the claim of membership in a historically pro-Nazi organization by one of it’s members, a claim denied by Gorka, his appearance in public with a Hungarian medal on his chest and a rummaging through his parents’ past. These are dangerously insufficient reasons to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}