Dissonance

Scott Adams has made a kind of parlor game out of spotting “cognitive dissonance” in critics of Donald Trump. He believes that exhibiting the “tells” of cognitive dissonance (such as long pauses) shows that a person has been confronted with facts or reasoning that have shaken their belief system, and the pause is them rallying […]

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Trump as Hitler

Is Trump Hitler? At the risk of calling up unpleasant Democratic memories: it depends on your definition of “is”. Is he going to send 4 million scapegoats to their direct deaths? No. Is he going to try conquering the world militarily? No. If there are progressives that really believe this, then that’s just unfortunate for […]

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