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I keep seeing Democrats worrying that Trump is getting all this free airtime while Biden seems quiet.

But Biden is up in the polls, and in every presser, Trump just says a dozen more things the Biden team can weaponize in ads later.
If these pressers were so good for Trump, his swing state polling would not look like...this.
I mean...
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If you'd written a satire of the Trump administration where they launched a campaign called "Truth Over Facts" it would've been dismissed as heavyhanded and unfair.
To note the apparent response: "Truth over facts" is a Biden gaffe from a few months back. Hence the attack.

To make my point clear: It's amazingly audacious for the Trump campaign to try and weaponize it.

"Truth over facts" is just "take him seriously, not literally."
The entire Trump justification is he doesn't worry about facts, but he expresses some kind of guttural or emotional truth even so, while all these persnickety factual reporters are lying in a deeper, more directional way.
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This @EricLevitz review of "Why We're Polarized" is very sharp. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
One thing I want to write more on is a tension he points out in the book: Polarization is both a political dynamic and a problem bedeviling our political system, and I'm trying to show both. He's right that that muddles the conversation, but it's because the reality is muddled.
The word "polarization" is just used to describe too much. In the book I try to pull apart different kinds of polarization, and the way different institutions interact with polarization, but the word itself is an enemy of clarity. It means too much to too many.
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