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Over the last few weeks, university administrations across the country addressed encampments in a variety of ways — from immediate, dramatic and sometimes violent clearing of protesters to an accommodation that pandered to chaos and enabled criminal behavior.

Republicans say the administration pandered dangerously to Iran during the 2021-22 time frame in pursuing a renewal of the 2015 nuclear deal that former President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018 on grounds it failed to address Tehran’s backing of such terrorist groups as Hamas.

This is despite a lack of films featuring Latinos, which I think speaks to another overlooked fact: Latinos don’t need to be pandered to.

McCarthy in his nine-month reign mostly pandered to the nuts, culture warriors and election deniers in his House Republican majority, ever fearful of the coup that finally came after he twice digressed from the extremist path to actually govern — compromising with the Senate and White House first to avoid a debt default and then a government shutdown.

His outlets pandered to their audiences’ secret cruelties and validated their worst instincts.