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Person of Interest

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Wed Mar 23, 2022, 02:46 PM Mar 2022

Columnist stunned after Trump-endorsed candidate 'calls for a lynching' - but faces no backlash


Westneat writes: "If a candidate keeps saying extreme and hateful things, and isn’t disowned by his party, and meanwhile everyone else starts shrugging because we think he’s a nut or we’re worn down or we just can’t keep pace with the firehose of lunacy, well, that’s a case study of how something as rancid as a call for a lynching becomes politically normal.


https://www.rawstory.com/republican-loren-culp-lynching/
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Columnist stunned after Trump-endorsed candidate 'calls for a lynching' - but faces no backlash (Original Post) Person of Interest Mar 2022 OP
Fascists just love it when they get their evil way. That's not the kind of scoiety I want to live abqtommy Mar 2022 #1
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