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Inside the Fox News-Trump Feedback Loop

May 11, 2020 · 8:56 am ET · Leave a Comment

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Although historians will ultimately label this period in our history the “Trump era,” Donald Trump is more a symptom than a cause of our fractured politics. The political polarization that divides us is only possible when a large segment of the population can be convinced reality is not true and that facts and science are up for debate.

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