I’ve already said my piece about James Talarico’s attempt to put a left-wing gloss on Christianity and why I think it nearly self-evident that it will not work politically in Texas. Here I want to talk about how the press is covering him, using today’s NYT article by Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth Dias as our example. And I’ll skip over their claim that by disputing conservatives’ understanding of Christianity, “he poses a new kind of threat to Republicans.”

The reporters let Talarico distance himself from his most incendiary past remarks by claiming he stood by their substance but “probably would have

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