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I want to rephrase something I posted a few minutes ago, because I put it over-broadly ...
The endorsement of Russia's aggression against Ukraine delivered tonight by @TuckerCarlson is a pretty specialized form of Trump admiration. It's not characteristic of very many of those who cast that misguided vote in 2016.
@TuckerCarlson I wrote in a way that seemed to spread the blame beyond the author of the words. It was one man who said them, and he is accountable for them, nobody else.
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