The Silence Breaks
Why the GOP suddenly cares about Nazi symbols, and why it may already be too late
It wasn’t the flag. It wasn’t the texts. It was the silence — or rather, the moment when the silence began to crack.
This past week, two stories broke almost in tandem:
A U.S. flag altered to include a swastika pattern was discovered inside the Washington, D.C. office of Representative David Taylor, a Republican from Ohio.
A massive leak — nearly 3,000 pag…




