A July 2009 column focused on what Rich believes is the bigoted nature of President Barack Obama 's detractors . On the Tea Party movement , which emerged in 2009 , Rich opined that at one of their rallies they were " kowtowing to secessionists . " He wrote that death threats and a brick thrown through a congressman 's window were a " small-scale mimicry of " Kristallnacht " ( or " night of broken glass " , the November 1938 anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria ) . In his essays at '' New York '' , Rich has continued to examine the American right , including its latest revival during the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump
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