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We鈥檙e pondering a couple of relatively small, but telling, refusals.

Actor Seth Rogen balked at taking a photo with Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. And after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied service at a Virginia restaurant, Sen. Cory Booker was asked if that kind of protest tactic should be more widely adopted. Is it no-holds-barred time for Democrats?

The New Jersey Democrat replied with a call for 鈥溾�� 鈥� no exceptions.鈥� 聽He added: 鈥淲e cannot descend into a kind of hatred that really undermines what I think is ... hopeful about this nation.鈥�

The fissures of frustration aren鈥檛 just snaking into restaurants and photo-ops. Pastor J. D. Greear was asked by NPR about . The newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention said, 鈥淲e need to decouple the identity of the church from particular political platforms.鈥� He observed that two of Christ Jesus鈥� followers, Simon, the zealot, and Matthew, the tax collector, stood on opposing sides of the great political divide of their day: Roman occupation of the Holy Land.

We鈥檙e working on a story about what the Red Hen restaurant refusal represents, but here鈥檚 one more response to consider: A CNN correspondent was berated as a purveyor of fake news at a Trump campaign rally Monday in South Carolina. What followed was : CNN鈥檚 Jim Acosta gave up his seat to an elderly woman. Her son said: 鈥淵our mama raised you right.鈥�

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