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Why Donald Trump Poses a Unique Threat to America

Zooming In at The UnPopulist

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Empathy in Politics - It's a Natural Human Response

Both sides in our politics have a kind of activist sensibility these days, where the goal is not simply to really persuade the suadable, it's also to kind of provoke your enemy. So you try toa, say the most outrageous, insulting thing, the most caricatured version of your opponent,. In the hope that they will then lash out at what you are saying in an extreme way which will then help you in your own position. And yet we now have a whole intera structure on the right where a series of web sites ask for young conservative students to send examples of particularly outrageous wing professorial transgressions and those posts get picked up by tucker carlson who

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