1. We talk a lot about how the GOP has been cowed by the Trumpists. But an almost equally important dynamic is that many centrist and right-wing institutions have also been cowed by the Trumpists.https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1352985397173903362 …
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3. The partial silencing of Trump and QAnon is making this dynamic worse. To prove "balance," social media & centrist institutions are now silencing left and liberal speech, including stuff that is completely innocuous.
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4. Centrist institutions are congenitally incapable of seeing asymmetrical polarization, so they respond to right-wing outrage with a reflexive swat on "both sides" -- as if there was equality of sides. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-censorship-times-wolfe/ …
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Should journalists be fired over jokes?
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Mom once commented to me that the dominant emotion for her & Dad during the McCarthy years was shock at how many gullible people it turned out they lived among. Thus ever, alas.
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People were still as gullible decades later when the Iraq WMD myth was clearly massively overblown in real time and yet.
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