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The Two Big Lies

Gender, Trump, and the collapse of America's sanity.

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Mar 21, 2025
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Trump protestors on Capitol Hill. Jan. 6th 2021. Image via Protect Democracy

by Ben Cohen

If you spend enough time talking to people across the political spectrum, a pattern emerges: the further someone moves toward an ideological extreme, the further they drift from reality.

A committed libertarian starts to view every problem as a failure of government i…

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