What Obituaries Can Teach Us
Peloni: Joan Swirskey‘s rotting fruit analogy is so well deserved by Carlson and his ilk. It is a sad and terrible reality that the hatred of Jews being promoted by the fake Right Carlson, Owens, Kelly etc, contrasts sharply with great favor which the American Founding Fathers held for the Jewish people. While the American Left have cast off these ties to the past, it was the American Right, ie the conservative MAGA movement, which saw its past as something worth savoring and restoring, which again contrasts sharply with the Jew Hatred inherent in so much of the Fake Right’s rhetoric, giving rise to the fact that these pro-Islamist, Iran-supporting, Jew haters have far more in common with Obama and his ilk than with Trump’s philosemitic MAGA movement. Hence the truth is not so much that the fruit is rotten, but that it is laced with the same toxic focus inherent in what should be understood to divide the American Left from the American Right. Indeed, the rotting fruit in Joan’s analogy represents the Obama-lyte faction which should be cut out of Trump’s party, very much like you would cast aside a rotting apple to define the limit of what is acceptable to a conservative pallet. Or so I would suggest.
Plus what they will teach us about those who are still with us.
Am Thinker | March 5, 2026
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When I was growing up in New Haven, Conn., my parents subscribed not only to our local newspaper — The New Haven Register, still extant — but also to The New York Times and the now defunct (since 1966) New York Herald Tribune. I think I was about eight or nine years old when I was idly flipping through the Times and came across the obituary section. From that very moment, I was hooked.
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