Reihan Salam
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Reihan Salam is a political commentator known for his insights on immigration and social issues. This interview reveals his diplomatic approach to fostering understanding and collaboration across different societal divides.
“Held back not even so much in a kind of narrow professional kind of sense, it was more socially. So it's one of these things where I guess the classic story you always hear is that, oh, you came for economic opportunity. And I'm sure there was some of that. But as with every immigrant, there was a deeply personal story.”
“They're also disproportionately moderates, which is something that people don't know. I mean, they're disproportionately self-identified moderates among Republicans.”
“The former mayor of Chicago, first African American mayor. We had this political class of people who were activists, who were brave, who were courageous people, who changed our society in lots of important ways, who came from that, who were the descendants of that great migration.”
“Judgment, you know, kind of maybe it's a bad thing for people to intermarry. There are a lot of people, for example, the Jewish community who believe that it's really good and important to preserve a distinctive identity.”
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