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@bascule ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri 🦀") retweeted:
@SykesCharlie ("Charlie Sykes") wrote:
Adam Serwer has famously noted that in Trump’s America, ‘the cruelty is the point.”
But in late-stage Trumpism, it is not just the cruelty: The lack of empathy is also the point.
Insensitivity is cultivated; compassion is derided as weakness.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/29/simone-biles-and-the-magaverses-fetish-of-toughness-501515