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The Liberal dismissal of tolerance the NYT treats Trump as pantomime villian

What undergirds and constitutes the word  'Liberal' is the word 'Tolerance' and tolerance means accepting views that one may dislike and may even find repulsive.
What is essential for us all, I would submit, is not the particular doctrine, whether that is left or right but what matters is the ability to tolerate dissent from your views. Not accommodating what one feels foreign to one's orthodoxies is one of the causes of the populism that is currently sweeping Europe. Portraying Trump  as  a Pantomime villain, is the broad brush stuff of frivolous burlesque and does not even have the cutting edge of satire.
Vilification of Trump as is evident left unattended can become quasi religious and doctrinal, perhaps that is one of the reasons Europe is on a march to the right.  All opinions are theories, I would submit, but here is a couple of queries which are fact based; what does Germany pay towards NATO?  How much did Germany pay to Russia for their gas line? Under Obama one never had to ask such questions for one was denied such knowledge - the knowledge of course was there but not for public consumption, now you have to be really 'educated' to brazenly deny your voting public with such sophist style. But , we all have burdens to carry; one of them being a schooling in sophistry at Harvard?

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