Donald Trump And The Power Of Denial

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Wed, 04/27/2016 - 2:29am

I hate Donald Trump and much of what he represents. But do you know what I hate even more? Denial. The right has been deep in denial for years. Honed under the last Republican president into a sure-fire method of inspiring confident resolve in the face of adversity, denial of reality has by now become almost second nature to many party apparatchiks and their intellectual compatriots in the right-wing media.

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