The irony was that Thomas himself was no stranger to the culture wars. Even after Blinded by Might, he continued publishing a column that regularly took polarizing positions on already-divisive subjects. Yet he wasn’t a villain to the left. This was a man who called Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi friends; a man who wrote conservative op-eds by day and dined with the country’s most prominent progressives by night. What was his secret? “I want to be like Jesus. He ate with ‘publicans and sinners’—or, as I like to say, Republicans and Democrats,” Thomas said, beaming mischievously. “He hung out
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