Political copes 1: "Groupthink"

Deconstructing the worst rhetorical moves in contemporary political discourse.

It was probably about a decade ago that it became unfashionable to talk about logical fallacies in our political discourse, at some point after a college libertarian accused someone of ad hominem on a message board for the millionth time. And yet: we are still faced with the stubborn problem that fallacies are extremely stupid. They are at least equally…