If not, you haven’t heard about the war on Christmas — or the new war on Thanksgiving that President Trump announced Tuesday. Late-night comedians have had a ball with Trump’s phony war on Christmas — and for good cause. Snopes.com notes that one of the first to claim that Christmas was under siege was the notorious racist and anti-Semite Henry Ford. Snopes attributes the modern war on Christmas coinage to Peter Brimelow, the founder of Vdare, a noxious website described as “racist, anti-immigrant” by the Anti-Defamation League. This is largely because young Americans are less white, and less Christian, than older Americans.

Source: Washington Post November 27, 2019 18:45 UTC