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Freethinker65

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2. Guess using the term alt-right is getting to them

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Thu Dec 29, 2016, 04:45 PM

Dec 2016

About time! Very hard to make a positive sounding term like "progressive" sound threatening....but they did a masterful job at demonizing the word "liberal", so who knows?

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