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The Red-Pill Trap

Why Hating the Democrats Doesn't Justify Embracing Trump

Nov 18, 2025
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Ryan Grim has, I think, the best take on Bari Weiss’s The Free Press (TFP). In an interview with Glenn Greenwald, Grim argued that TFP allows wealthy people to feel righteous when their blue-haired kid calls them racist or sexist. That’s the sort of permission structure Weiss fosters: Don’t worry about what your kid thinks — they’ve been indoctrinated b…

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