”…the point of the right wing’s dehumanization of political opponents is to dismiss the pain they are inflicting. If the majority of Americans are not really human, toying with their lives isn’t important—maybe it’s even LOL funny to pretend to take a chainsaw to the programs on which people depend.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, March 9, 2025
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-9-2025
#trump #musk #dehumanization #usa
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