Today we heard again from Mr. Ken Cuccinelli who put his feet in his mouth again in a tweet (Oh, the apple does not fall far from the tree, does it?) in which he said that Grafton Thomas is not as “american” as he ought to be. Thomas is the deranged man who attacked a Hanukkah party in a rabbi’s home in N.Y. state. He is the son of a sometime illegal alien, now a U.S. citizen, whose children are all birthright citizens. But Ken attributes Thomas’ hate crime to a want of amurrican values. He wrote: “Apparently, American values did not take hold among this entire family, at least this one violent, and apparently bigoted son.” Ken might have since deleted this tweet; at least it has disappeared. Why would he delete it??? Because it made even more obvious that he is a xenophobic nutcase.

You know, the name Cuccinelli sounds more Italian than American. Ken’s great-grandfather, Dominic Cuccinelli, was an immigrant. His grandfather, Dominick, was conceived in Italy and born in the U.S. Ties to the old country remained strong, for Dominick got his cousins Mario and Silvio into the United States. Did the Cuccinelli family absorb American values? No doubt they did, but “at least this one violent, and apparently bigoted son,” their famous son, Ken, has not. His career and his atrocious behavior as part of the Trump Gang show clearly that whatever values he holds, he does not share American values.