I think it helped that he showed his work. Just calling that guy racist or islamophobic or whatever would've been accurate but he explained what that means in this context and why it's bad. Even for things that seem self evident it's good to do that in political communication

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it's just shorthand for right wing policy. anti-immigration, anti-welfare

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the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

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Trump could burn down the New York Times and chase down the survivors with dogs and helicopters while freezing all their wordle money and they'd execute an emergency business continuity plan to put out an article saying questions persist about Hillary Clinton's private email server. One last rep.

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Solution: abolish all property taxes, replacing them with a “local services fee” charged at a percentage of your home’s value.

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