Milhouse, someone who had great rebbis can call himself a talmid chacham, talmid mechacham. I think I deserve the title Reb being of age, 72 years old. When people call others on the their first name, they are encouraging the coming of Meshiach who will come when the young have no respect of the old. Trump did not speak out on Charlottsville thereby encouraging antisemitism by giving the white supremacists a springboard for their cause as trump is their advocate. When the chacham in the Haggadah uses a similar expression as the rasha, says the Chasan Sofer, he does that with cleverness as it draws out the rasha to reveal himself by saying to the chacham, you are a rasha, I am also a rasha. The white supremacists are saying to trump, you are one of us.
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