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		JBiserkov 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scott Adams has died > Republicans will be hunted" if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election I don't know how he got there from Biden's literal pitch to donors that "nothing will fundamentally change".

pjc50 13 days ago [–]

Projection. The Republican pitch was to start hunting their enemies, so he and a lot of other people assumed the reverse applied too.

tremon 13 days ago | [–]

It's not about assumptions, it's rationalization. The tribal playbook requires one to demonize the enemy in order to justify what they want to do to them.

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