[swarthyguy]

Like his openly gay mentor, Varela comes from a devout Catholic background, perhaps one reason why he was on the same side in the bitter conflict with Muslim immigrants in Rotterdam, with their bitter condemnation of homosexuality

And damn him with faint praise here.

[TN Republican]

I think that the method is called, "demeaning the motive," although I suppose both analyses would work. Do you see it more as an implication that, "nobody else would have them, so the misfits joined together?"

Two propaganda tactics rolled up into one snippy sentence!