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Was the cruelty the point?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Are You Pessimistic?

I feel like there is a detect pessimism in a lot of your writing, that you seem a little unwilling to lean into her. And i wonder, are you just trying as much as possible to feign optimism, or do you think at there may actually be some light at the end of this tunnel? I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic when i say that the republican party is going to continue on this course because the structure of american politics and their relations with their bas pushes them in that direction. You know, maybe that's pessimistic, but i honestly just feel like i'm describing what they're doing and why they're doing it. But the questions you're asking me are about our

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