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13 Jan, 8 tweets, 2 min read

https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1349355810648895488

This is what Tomi Lahren called "one bad day."

https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1349355810648895488

It's been said a million times, but I can't stress enough how all of this -- the gaslighting, the "one bad day" downplaying, the "healing and unity" -- is so eerily like the dynamics of an abusive relationship. In which the victim starts to think "Maybe I'm just exaggerating."

Have they started eye-rolling at members of Congress talking about being traumatized? Because that's next. Mark my words. ("Nobody was really in life-threatening danger...")

(OK, so I must have missed that. But I was right. 🙄)

And Kellyanne Conway helped put this ship in the water with her "alternative facts" and her maestro-level gaslighting, so she can fuck all the way off with her "these events were outrageous and inexcusable."

@pashulman

Perhaps the canniest thing this administration ever did was poison the channels of information transmission, making people question things that were indisputably true. @pashulman and I tried to explain the danger of this with one teeny tiny example here: washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-h…

This lie about the 1924 Democratic convention continues to be spread daily. There is simply no undoing it now.

Part of that is due to a cultural shift, as well. I wrote these words in 2014.

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I would like to pull the death certificate to confirm this, but wow. (Trump's grandfather.)

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