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In an earlier post, “A Rhetoric of Demonization and Exclusion” [https://academeblog.org/2013/05/23/a-rhetoric-of-demonization-and-exclusion/], I discussed the lunatic-fringe rhetoric of the GOP...
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At the GOP’s rally against the Iran nuclear deal, one of the featured speakers was Sarah Palin, who said the following: “So up there in Alaska, across the way Russia. You know there is a name for this...
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