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The Normalization of the Big Lies

I think on October 29th, you tweeted about your fear about the normalization of the violence. You say this is how violence gets normalized. We're watching it happen. And to some degree, the Paul Pelosi stuff is dismissiveness, right? You might be making a joke about it, but you might be saying, it's not all that serious. To a lot of Americans, the poll watchers, the armed poll watchers in Arizona, well, nothing happened. Nobody got hurt. Gretchen Whitmer didn't get kidnapped and killed in Michigan. Paul Pelosi is recovering in hospital. But this is what happens. If you don't stand up against violence, just as I said

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