Philip Bump: “At this point, though, insinuations about Democrats embracing pedophilia or downplaying sex crimes victimizing children are not simply the political fringe making its way into the Capitol.”
“Instead, ‘pedophile’ or ‘groomer’ — a term used to describe people who try to prepare children for abuse — has of late replaced ‘socialist’ as a preferred, political, pejorative, long-standing potency of elevating fears about the safety of children has combined with specific political fights like the Jackson nomination and Florida’s new legislation limiting instruction about non-heterosexual relationships to spur a new rhetorical focus.”
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