Edition No. 123 · Fri 23 Oct 2026 · Story 5 of 53

What the GOP activist who confronted El-Sayed really got wrong

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David Weigel argues the lesson of El-Sayed's viral exchange is not that his religion is off limits but that his challenger could not keep up with him.

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