"I think most people, despite the fact that they have all kinds of complicated ideological relationships and are beset by misnifications," he says. "When they get the chance to like reject something that's clearly hateful and vile, they do because it's gross." He thinks dissentists could basically do a lot less of this stuff and would still be winning by the same margins.
Featuring Dennis Hogan on the crisis in higher education. The first in a two-part series. Next up: Donna Murch and Todd Wolfson on how university workers can fight back through industrial unionism.
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