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This tweet this morning from conservative talk show host Erick Erickson is yet another example of just how polarized and hypocritical  the nation has become.

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/978723092771082240

Erickson is reacting to a column by the Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan, who took Erickson and his cohorts apart in the aftermath of the Parkland school massacre,  which happened about six months after

 demanding more respect in our daily discourse, which, he said, should display our ability to disagree agreeably.

Erickson is now one of the ringleaders of the "sliming" of the survivors of the massacre, Sullivan  said, including spreading the false report that David Hogg, one of the most visible survivors, wasn't even at the school when the shooting occurred. He was.

Sullivan called Erickson to ask about the apparent disconnect between words and deeds, then 

Sullivan points out that Hogg has been accused of giving a Nazi salute (he didn't). Emma Gonzalez, the other face of Parkland, was depicted tearing up the Constitution. She didn't.

The two, meanwhile, have been the most adult in the room when it comes to the battle of ideas. Hogg refused to respond to the Nazi salute accusation, saying it didn't deserve a response.

“It’s just really sad,” Hogg said. “We’re so polarized as a nation. It’s so much easier to hate each other.”

“People need to realize when they counter these things to come with an American tone, not a divisive one,” he told Sullivan.

Politics and policy are fair game in any national debate, but the atrophy of our ability to elevate ourselves to an intellectual is ummistakable.

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This tweet this morning from conservative talk show host Erick Erickson is yet another example of just how polarized and hypocritical  the nation has become.


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