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The New Yorker’s Cavalcade of Ignorance

JL;DR SUMMARY Armin Rosen critiques The New Yorker's recent issue featuring various authors grappling with the state of America post-election, focusing on their collective ignorance and biases towards Trump supporters. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Donald TrumpFascismMedia BiasPolarizationAmerican PoliticsThe New YorkerPublic DiscourseArmin RosenElectionsIntellectual Elite

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"Stunningly, Trump fared better in New York City this year than he did in 2020, writes Jelani Cobb..."
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
"Jennifer Egan introduces us to two Trump voters she met while door-knocking for Kamala Harris in Allentown, Pennsylvania..."
Indiana, United States
"Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law and history at Harvard, recounts the Klans dominance of nineteen-twenties Indiana, then warns..."
Michigan, United States
"...with love, happiness, and perhaps even the future propagation of the human race amounting to a swing state no less critical than Michigan, and perhaps even as important as Pennsylvania."
Pennsylvania, United States
"...with love, happiness, and perhaps even the future propagation of the human race amounting to a swing state no less critical than Michigan, and perhaps even as important as Pennsylvania."

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