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Bad Thinking: Left, Center, and Right*

I was recently sent two left-identified essays that creepily stand up for the January 6 Capitol Rioters and for the freshly indicted ex-president Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors Cuz the Guys with the AR-15s Don’t Want to Shoot Me” Trump. The firs…

I was recently sent two left-identified essays that creepily stand up for the January 6 Capitol Rioters and for the freshly indicted ex-president Donald “Take Down the Metal Detectors Cuz the Guys with the AR-15s Don’t Want to Shoot Me” Trump. The first essay says that the very predominantly Caucasian January 6 “insurrectionists” being prosecuted and jailed for participating in the Attack on the US Capitol have been unjustly “lynched” by the Washington DC prosecutors and courts. It hints that the rioters are victims of FBI “entrapment” and argues that “the left” sets itself up for future government repression if it backs legal punishment of the thugs who trashed the Capitol in order to…you know, install Trump as a white nationalist dictator. More

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