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What would redeem this self-hating morass of identity synecdoche and self-eradicating metonymy was America, a country ripe for personal or racial or religious reinvention

a descriptor that the Nazis, to say nothing of coeval Poles, would have disputed

To date, Sanders’s most public, but also most parlous, statements on his own Semitism occurred in the first two of his two-person debates with Hillary

dwell instead amid the empyrean of the unmentionable

Also “appearance,” as in Barnum’s nostrum: “Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow.”