How the media makes nice people believe insane things

Why does my mom think there is a civil war coming?

Jul 8, 2021

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Yesterday I was sitting in my kitchen and I could overhear my mom watching MSNBC in another room. I couldn’t really make out what they were talking about but I did catch someone talking about how Trump reportedly has a book of Hitler speeches. This is an anecdote about Trump everyone including me wrote about years ago.…

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