1. First there's the overwhelming potato/po-tah-to shrugging off of this dude's Q-Anazi fantasies as mere political disagreement, like it's just a dispute over marginal tax rates or regulatory-vs.-market-based approaches or some such. Yeah, no, he's an antisemite.
2. Michel Martin muffles any potential insight under a heavy slather of both-sides-ism. "Americans are, in fact, living in different realities." No. We all live in the same reality. That's what "reality" means.
3. More trivially and personally: I appreciate that the meaning of the word "slacktivist" has been inverted since it was first coined in the early '90s and that usage is as usage does. But still, Vice Principal Strickland was wrong and he was a prick, so why give him a win?
I just re-read it & it reminds me of the sit-com nightmare scene from "Natural Born Killers." Like there should be a voiceover: "She's a journalist. HE thinks she's part of the Soros-funded ZOG covering up Satanic pedophilia. [canned laughtrack] Follow their wacky hijinks ..."
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