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Jared Yates Sexton
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So, Father’s Day is coming up. It’s hard for people like me who lost their dads early, but I’m hearing from a lot of readers who read my book The Man They Wanted Me To Be and had breakthroughs with dads they thought were lost to Fox News/Trumpism.

amazon.com/Man-They-Wante…
A big chunk of the book is about my dad, who had next to nothing to do with me as a kid because he was too busy pretending to be a hardass but later in life admitted masculinity had trapped him and kept him from happiness.
Eventually he changed, traded in his pickup for a Prius, started caring about climate change, became anti war, and swore off his racist, fascist beliefs. It was a small miracle, but the truth is he was scared and insecure like all men who behave like that.
Anyway, it should make a decent Father’s Day gift if you want to give it another try of breaking through that wall or want to understand for yourself. It’s helped some people so far.
The truth is these men are being radicalized and taken advantage of by Fox News, Trump, the Republican Party, and special interests who tune their messaging directly to insecure men. It’s a hard sell getting them free, but it can be done.
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Over and over and over again Russia has capitalized on the delusional faith in order.

People didn’t want to believe they would interfere in an election or that a presidential campaign would conspire with a foreign adversary. Now they don’t want to believe in vote tampering.
This thing has been as blatant as blatant gets. The dots have been there in full view for anyone to connect. When we were sounding the alarm in 2016, when people were begging for alert, it was a conspiracy theory because people didn’t want to believe it could happen.
It’s a crime in broad daylight that worked because of denial and an unfounded faith in a vast array of myths that underpin this country. Russia used that against us. That denial and faith was the best weapon ever invented.
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The media is so hopelessly and cluelessly addicted to Donald Trump's spectacle that they wouldn't have tolerated him being taken down unless it was an equal or greater spectacle.
Democrats aren't going to do it, but if they want to end this crisis, if they want to address the walking, talking disaster of Donald Trump, they're going to have to get wild-eyed and loud. They'd have to turn this into a Michael Mann movie. I'm not kidding.
Pelosi and Democratic leadership don't understand the moment. At all. If they pushed for impeachment, if they pushed for hearings, the media would drown salivating. Turn the volume and heat up. Get out there and scream. Give them a new drug and they'll thank you for it.
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Since everyone wants to talk winners and losers like it’s a game, here are the losers from today: all of us. Mueller’s testimony further revealed that Republicans have lost every shred of decency and the reaction to it in the media showed us we’re lost in illusions.

We all lost.
The media right now is just drowning in ageist and ableist shaming, treating a national crisis like it’s a series finale, critiquing its entertainment value. They’re letting a criminal president lie without challenging him.

We are losing.
They built up Robert Mueller like he was going to be a rockstar savior. He sat down and was a reasonable, impartial witness. So now they’re destroying him for the sin of being serious and serving a long, decorated career. It’s repugnant.
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