Left-leaning media seek misinformation monopoly
They peddle their own falsehoods while trying to drive opposing views out of circulation entirely.
Gerard Baker
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For privileged progressives, ‘we’ means ‘you’
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Blaming Trump for a US constitutional crisis is a convenient political cover. The Biden administration is a real-world case study in the perils of progressive impossibilism
Biden’s economic fantasy world
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