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To the Woman Who Trashed Me on Twitter
“Why does the political landscape feel like high school?” asks Kat Rosenfield. (Mean Girls 2004, Entertainment Pictures/Alamy Stock Photo)
Why would a person who has privately supported you decide to publicly shame you? In her new book, Fox News panelist Kat Timpf has answers.
By Kat Rosenfield
09.15.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Back when Donald Trump was last running for election, as the Great Awokening made its speech-chilling sweep through the American media, a small number of writers and public intellectuals admitted to not being entirely onboard with the new orthodoxy of privilege checking, sensitivity reading, racial affinity groups for 8-year-olds, and so on. These peopl…

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Kat Rosenfield
Culture writer, novelist, and podcaster. On Twitter at @katrosenfield.
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