"The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.“


-Michael Pollan

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The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.

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