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Ben Stephens

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Brit living in LA – professional copywriter, occasional improviser, happily weaning off Tw*tter.

  1. This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them.

    Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.

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  2. one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that liberals are too uncivil

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