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It’s a self-righteous fury out there in the American Heartland, a wild red, white and blue tornado that rips families apart, flings undocumented parents across the border and scatters the poor. And it has professional apologists. On the Sunday talk show This Week, George Will made a snobbish plea that Arizona’s SB 1070 only reinforces federal law, specifically the 1940 Smith Act. He said not to worry about racial profiling because “law enforcement officials make these decisions everyday” and we can trust their judgment.

Being a Conservative, he is nostalgic for faith in power but refuses to hear the screams echoing through American history.