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Elie Honig

As to the part about having this dystopian worldview, that was something I only came to later when I was trying to piece together the question that so many people ask, which is “Why would Bill Barr have taken this job in the first place?” Bill Barr sees himself really as a culture warrior, as somebody whose ultimate mission was

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