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Message for My Liberal Friends:

Fact-checking? Good.
Name-calling? Strategic malpractice.

The Facebook post graphic reproduced below illustrates both name-calling and effective fact-checking. If your goal is to change minds, contempt is self-sabotage.

Calling people “stupid” because they disagree with you may feel satisfying. It may earn applause from your side. But it will not persuade…

Trump is backing down—or appears to be. What’s the best response?

Recent history suggests that the retreat is tactical, not transformational.

Authoritarian movements rarely end because of a single reversal. They end because sustained, strategic pressure makes continuation impossible.

Recent state-level pullbacks may feel like victories. At best, they’re Round 1.

As journalists like Rachel…