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President Trump made a joke recently, the point of which was the ambiguity concerning the late Congressman John Dingell's permanent spiritual residence. All day long, Yahoo News had the story of Trump "insulting" the memory of the late representative at the top of its home page, along with a photo of the grieving widow escorting her husband's casket out of what appeared to be a church.

As always, a little context comes in handy - for example, Daniel Greenfield's article: "The Hellish Legacy of the Dingell Family".

A decade ago, Time Magazine unveiled an in-depth article on the death of Detroit. One of the politicians whom the article blamed for Detroit’s woes was Rep. John Dingell.

The Dingell clan has held a congressional seat outside Detroit since 1932. Their 87-year tenure has not coincidentally coincided with the decline of a thriving industrial city into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

But it’s been good for the Dingells, three of whom have sat in their congressional seat since the days of Herbert Hoover, the rise of Hitler, and the radio age, and fattened their pockets on its sinecures.