Liberals imagine their anti-Trump tweeting as akin to fighting Franco in 1938, but they'd never subject themselves to actual physical danger
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If you question the political formidability of the "alt-right," you immediately receive accusations of supporting/excusing the alt-right.
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It's a self-destructive tendency that will preclude any genuine assessment of what liberals have done wrong. https://twitter.com/freddiedeboer/status/805508363928870913 …
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Of course if your understanding of US politics derives mainly from Twitter, you're going to assign outsized importance to the "alt-right"
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That's partly why I've urged people to reconsider their Twitter habits, and take tangible steps to avoid groupthink:https://medium.com/@mtracey/trump-has-destroyed-twitter-257f54d23998#.f9lixd5i0 …
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Stopping Trump wasn't priority during the GOP primary while elevating him, nor the Dem primary while choosing the weaker candidate.
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@freddiedeboer They need something to replace the KKK with. They never heard of Alt-Right before the Hillary speech.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I say if they can rebrand Nazi as Alt-right then ISIL should be called alt-islam.
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And also enable corporate elites to evade changes directed at income inequality.
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I'd bet good money that when liberals speak of the alt right they don't realize that they're dealing with a bunch of trolls
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The 'alt' alt right that liberals speak of is the fringe on the fringe.
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people need to see it as uplifting vs. oppressive, not "left" vs. "right"
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I go the other way on this. Illusory (small #), yep. But rhetorically, outing alt-right is the best strategy going
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Hypothesis is that this is what will disgust begrudging voters that got Trump elected. Working on an essay on this.
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@freddiedeboer they've tried running against the alt right and lost. Do they think it will be easier in 2020?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Don't let them know Michael! Let them dig their hole even deeper, they deserve it for being dishonest.
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