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You don't want to accept that you are being attacked by barbarians who have strong incentives to manipulate the discourse of the press and the social media. The big difference with 1917 is that today the barbarians can rely on that manipulation to gain not a majority of voters but enough support in the press, the social media, and the academy to change the discourse.

You don't like to call your enemies barbarians. I assume you will say that IS nasty political rhetoric, and yes, it IS because the barbarians are not inviting their enemies to exchange ideas and socialize. They want their enemies to disappear, preferably physically. They don't rely directly on violence --like previous barbarians used to do for centuries-- because today, if their enemies' leaders wanted, small armies could easily defeat them. Unfortunately, we are seeing too many cowards leading the opposition to the barbarians (and too many false intellectuals trying to persuade us that we are nasty).

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You are mistaken about Fox News. It has a number of interesting leftish commentators.

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