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I don’t think that anyone who is thinking critically and choosing their words carefully will generalize it to a whole political party. But I do think there is a valid observation that on twitter one party has a larger set of members who are engaging in the logical fallacy with more frequency and to a more absurd extent than the other party.

Is every Republican therefore guilty? No. Is every Democrat therefore innocent? Of course not.

But it’s reasonable to extrapolate that twitter is representative in this particular way of what non-twits are thinking. Right now it’s happening a lot on the right, in extreme and ridiculous ways. And we don’t see the same thing to the same degree from the left.

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