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PJ Alexander's avatar

Enjoyed this piece and it feels spot on. What I find lazy is how many people and institutions (including our federal govt) are now able to blame all the troubles on the orange man, instead of digging deep into the conditions that they created which set the ground for the troubles in the first place.

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Anonymous Mongoose's avatar

Painting Colbert as a victim is laughable. People lose their jobs every day, dust themselves up and get back on the horse. Colbert will be just fine.

However, painting the current admin as authoritarian (which one may or may not agree with), without making the same claim of the previous admin (which had plenty of authoritarian policies) is a bit rich. Plenty of people had their careers destroyed and were canceled because they didn't toe the party line, or worse, refused to lie.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, Ms. Gerson.

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