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Counterfactual speculation time
Do you think if say Mitt Romney had won in 2016 the left would be reacting with a #resistance?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
they called romney a sexist, they called him racist, they depicted paul ryan dumping grannies off a cliff...honestly, it wasn't the rhetoric that was different in 2016, just the volume
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Replying to @petergodofsky @eigenrobot
those were excesses from hyper-partisan sources (which really came into their own during the W. years). the adoption of that rhetoric by more mainstream sources is almost unique to the Trump era.
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