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Freddie Deboer: The Nihilism of the Left and the Optimism that Must Replace It

From the New World

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Is That What Animates Republicans?

I don't think that in general, less conservatives are just sort of animated by the will to destroy the other at this point. They're interested in destroying the other. And so they love figures like Gavin McInnes, right, who no one would call a political heavyweight intellectually. But he is someone who frames everything that he does politically around the goal of simply destroying liberals. It's not clear to me that that's what animates Republicans anymore, right?

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