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Claire Berlinski
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I'm trying to figure out the key to explaining to people, without just alienating them and hardening their positions, why this should alarm them. The problem is that I don't understand why it doesn't instinctively alarm them. Can someone help me out?
It must be one of the following reasons: 1) Disbelief in the report that this happened. If so, would you agree that if it happened, it's deeply disturbing?

2) A belief that things like this happen all the time, and people are selectively focusing on what's a common occurrence.
If so, do you think it's okay for things like this to happen all the time? Do you think it wouldn't be damaging to the United States if it did?
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Claire Berlinski
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Good luck, but if people weren't willing to read it, I doubt they'll be willing to listen to this. Or...I don't know: perhaps they will. Perhaps this is part of the transition from literary to oral culture.
I understand what you're trying to do. So few people actually read the report, and without reading it, how are they going to understand any of this?

But something tells me it's a mistake to keep dumbing things down.
This is training people not to read. It's teaching them to be more interested in spoken words with dramatic narrative and a soundtrack than written original document. And where has this cultural race to the bottom *already* led?
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Claire Berlinski
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No, to the contrary. Americans have never been more divided--in my life at least--since you began your campaign for the presidency. I believe you are a large cause of this, though not the only cause, and that the only way we can heal is with you gone.
In fact, evidence for this is in this Tweet. Instead of taking your responsibility seriously and attempting to calm over-hysterical Americans and bring them together, you're using words like "civil war," which verges on incitement to violence. Does a real man do that? No.
And *certainly* a president doesn't.

When you're out of that office, I'm sure we'll do much better. We do not hate each other and have no cause to hate each other. We have political divisions, which is normal in a democracy. But you're encouraging us to hate each other.
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Claire Berlinski
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Hey, can I ask a favor? There were slightly fewer readers of the newsletter today than before. Is that because people are so overwhelmed by the news, or is it because it's just too long? Would you mind checking it out and giving me your advice?
Do I need to shorten it even more to hold modern attention spans?

I actually thought it was an interesting newsletter, and might be genuinely helpful to people who are struggling with the moral dilemma that I know many people *are* struggling with re. Trump.
I don't know if my audience has thought about it this way, and I think the points at the end might truly be of use to them.

But maybe I shouldn't have discussed the situation in Ukraine at such length *before* getting at that. Tell me what you think.
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Some people have asked about it, and also I think it will be good prep for my defense, so I'm going to live-tweet my dissertation.
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