"Donor's Trust is a gigantic identity scrubbing-device for the rightwing."
"It doesn't do anything. It's just an identity scrubber."
This only makes sense if you regard making charitable contributions as a hostile act.
Which, I guess, you could if you were prone toward wildly uncharitable and conspiratorial thinking. And, given what we're watching, I don't think you can rule that out.

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