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SO THOSE ‘CONCENTRATION CAMPS’:  Boundaries.

SHE STARTED THIS BY CONVINCING THE WITLESS AND IGNORANT THAT PLACES WHERE WE KEEP PEOPLE TRYING TO STORM OUR COUNTRY ARE “CONCENTRATION CAMPS” AS THOUGH YOU KNOW JEWS WERE PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND KILLED FOR TRYING TO BREAK INTO GERMANY, AND STAYED BY REFUSING TO GO HOME. AND NOW SHE’S JUST COMPOUNDING HER EVIL BY SUPPORTING THE WITLESS BASTARDS WHO WANT INNOCENT CHILDREN TO SLEEP ON THE FLOOR. IN CASE YOU FORGET, COMMUNISTS ARE EVIL:  Wayfair Walkout: AOC’s Logic Bombs Once Again.

VIDEO: Google Reacts to Project Veritas Exposé. “Look, we may be hypocrites and liars. But we have all the power. No matter what gets out, we will keep hiding it.”

OPEN THREAD: Just run with it.

IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL BE HITLER FOR 15 MINUTES. AND THE FUTURE IS NOW: Leaked Google Doc Describes Shapiro, Peterson, PragerU As ‘Nazis Using The Dog Whistles.’

As James Taranto memorably wrote, “The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it’s intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you’re the dog.”

Related: Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam.

And note the disparity in coverage:

Some of the tumbleweeds are Silicon Valley enforced: Reddit Suspends Users Who Post Project Veritas Videos.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD SAYS TRUMP KNOWS WHAT HE’S DOING ON IRAN:

Unresolved foreign-policy crises normally weigh on a president’s popularity; in Mr. Trump’s case, they become plotlines that provide drama and suspense. When Kim Jong Un gives him lemons, Mr. Trump sets up a lemonade stand.

The president’s critics continue to dismiss him as a cable-TV-obsessed, narcissistic know-nothing even as he dominates American and world politics. What they miss is that Mr. Trump not only possesses an instinctive ability to dominate media coverage; he is also a keen judge of power. The fashionable neighborhoods of Los Angeles are filled with world-famous celebrities who yearn for political power; Hollywood hates him so virulently in part because, like Ronald Reagan, Mr. Trump has transcended show business and transformed celebrity power into the real thing.

The key to the president’s Iran policy is that his nose for power tells him Iran is weaker and the U.S. stronger than the foreign-policy establishment believes. President Obama’s nuclear deal, from Mr. Trump’s perspective, was the result of a successful Iranian con game executed by clever Islamic Republic negotiators who ran circles around John Kerry. What Mr. Trump wants is a deal with Iran that matches his sense of the relative power of the two countries.

In pursuit of this goal he is combining two sets of strategies. At the level of public diplomacy he is engaging in his standard mix of dazzle and spin, shifting from bloodcurdling threats to gentle billing and cooing as need be. And at the level of power politics he is steadily and consistently tightening the screws on Iran: arming its neighbors and assuring them of his support, tightening sanctions, and raising the psychological pressure on the regime.

And note this:

Mr. Trump’s approach to American diplomacy horrifies an establishment that believes restraint, predictability and responsibility are the hallmarks of a global hegemon. Lesser powers can indulge in histrionic grandstanding, clownish antics, outrageous claims and public tantrums. The hegemon exhibits power by rising above such tawdry tricks.

This is not the Trump approach.

Given the foreign policy establishment’s sorry record over the last few decades, that’s probably just as well.