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Clyde Haberman’s sporadic “Retro Report” feature is advertised by the New York Times as a re-examination “of the leading stories of decades past,” but functions more like a convenient way for Haberman to gather up and repurpose old liberal talking points from previous failed bursts of activism and marshal them for a new one.

Haberman’s October 2017 piece on sexual harassment in politics managed to hit Clarence Thomas and Donald Trump while entirely skipping Bill Clinton[1], and his piece on illegal immigration the same month smeared border control as “xenophobic[2].” In Monday’s Times, Haberman’s latest, “Battle Was Always Uphill To Get Gun Laws Passed[3],” tackled the National Rifle Association, the new epitome of troglodyte conservative fear-mongering. There was a time

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