Not *sure* you are right about our peril being overstated, but you very well may be. Coming from you it's awfully nice to hear.
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I'm hilariously conflicted about the President of the US tweeting the way he does. It's jello wrestling with eye gouging and biting, and we know how George Washington would respond to it. But we've been jello wrestling since Lewinsky and long before, and if CNN et al are going to host a 24/7 anti-Trump telethon then everybody might as well fling their best shots around and keep it even.
Scott Adams says that social media now functions as the conscience of the country, and often a conscience that jells one way or the other (on, say, Access, or on CNN's doxxing of a meme writer) in a matter of hours rather than years. I wonder to what extent he's right.