By digging in, Trump probably just increases the power and meaning of the protests.https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/912018945158402049 …
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Dan Kahan at yale has written about this. http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2017/2/20/fake-news-enh-alternative-facts-presidency-watch-out-talk-su.html … trump is a “toxic meme” generator. A person ...
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... with the power to take normally non-political things, or not-always-obvious political things (like NFL) and pit people against another
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His followers (some of them) will follow his lead on this. Opposition will intensify and oppose. And suddenly the whole fricken country...
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...is screaming at each other over football. Not to say there aren’t things worth believing in or debating here
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But trump just always turns up the heat in a way that is sure to put neighbor against neighbor, so to speak.
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Sure. People would have debated anthem protests ( and they did!). But I just get a sinking feeling now. Ugh.
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