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Bob Dylan warned us about guys like Stephen Miller

JL;DR SUMMARY Seth Rogovoy explores the uncanny resonance between Bob Dylan's 1983 album "Infidels" and contemporary political figures like Stephen Miller. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Heritage FoundationZionismBob DylanPolitical RhetoricU.S. PoliticsCorporate GreedStephen MillerInfidelsSarcasmProphetic Lyrics

Places mentioned

Santa Monica, California, United States
"That would happen two years later, when Miller was born in Santa Monica, California just 20 minutes down the Pacific Coast Highway from Bob Dylans home in Malibu."
Greenland
"The question arose the other day when Miller, defending talk of a possible U.S. takeover of Greenland, said, We live in a world, in the real world that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power."
Jerusalem, Israel
"The album Infidels includes a photograph of Dylan crouching down on a hillside overlooking the walled city of Jerusalem on its inner sleeve."

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