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22 Feb, 3 tweets, 2 min read
I do not understand the enthusiasm to talk about the country's "divisions" combined with the refusal to talk about their primary cause.
One of the main reasons I'm so pessimistic about the future of this country is the complete refusal of left-wing elites to describe what is actually taking place in it.
Yes. We're not "divided." We have a two-party system in which one party has dramatically radicalized. That's it, that's the cause of roughly 90% of our political dysfunction.

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We have no idea in what context these slides were given. "Try to be less white" could have been presented as an option and discarded. But even if it were straightforwardly presented... who cares?
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