“We apologize. We love China. We love everything they’re about.”

– 2018 NBA MVP James Harden, doing his part to calm tensions in the Asia-Pacific region. (If you don’t know the story by now, Google “Daryl Morey tweet Hong Kong.”) Ted Cruz, Beto O’Rourke, John Cornyn, and Julián Castro all agreed to disagree with Step Daddy on this one.

This article appears in October 11 • 2019.

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