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The Bulwark

The Nastiness Is the Point

The Bulwark
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60% Informative

California Rep. Robert Garcia plans to launch a pro-housing “ Yes in My Backyard caucus’ This year in support of Kamala Harris’s plans to juice housing supply across America .

William Kristol : It's not enough to deprive your foe of policy wins, you must humiliate them too.

The beating heart of MAGA-ism is the bedrock desire to be nasty to one’s opponents.

But sometimes that nastiness gets directed within the tent, as we saw in an odd dustup this week .

Julie Kelly had gently pushed back against an erroneous, viral report from another J6 truther alleging the person who planted a pipe bomb on Capitol Hill on January 6th had been in cahoots with Capitol Police .

Kelly 's husband John is a prominent Democratic lobbyist in Illinois state politics.

Special Counsel Jack Smith ’s federal case against Donald Trump was upended earlier this year when the Supreme Court rolled out its shiny new standard on presidential immunity.

Now Smith is back in court with a superseding indictment that excises some conduct deemed out-of-bounds by the court ruling.

VR Score

55

Informative language

48

Neutral language

13

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

39

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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