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Was the cruelty the point?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Cruelty in American Politics

The book is about understanding the deeper ideological trins that led to trump. Raceism is obviously a part of this story. But your answer is related, and i want to just start there. What role has cruelty played in american politics? And what role does it playd now? So i'm thinking of cruelty as sort of not an individual problem. It certainly is that all human beings are capable of cruelty. Unfortunately, its part of human nature.

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