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Judging from a preview mounted by the Latino museum, Latino Identity | National Museum of the American Latino, the narrative has become even more extreme, the scorn for the nation and its past more intense.

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These groups deserve shame, scorn and diplomatic rebuke — not fawning sympathy and United Nations red carpets.

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Is the solution electing a governor for blue California, who — if not openly scorning the state’s millions of Republicans — is willing to render them politically powerless?

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If anything, the contrast between his self-importance and his actual worthlessness is drawing louder scorn all the time.

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The father beat the son regularly, and scorned nonreligious music as the devil’s work.

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