I think it’s safe to assume that the people who were lying about me and those who believed the lies for the most part were among the people who believed that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and that the January 6 attack on the Capitol either was justified or was a harmless demonstration. It was sinking in for me that although I was being attacked directly, this normalization and ready acceptance of lies and the prevalence of belief in conspiracy theories in a broader sense were part of an assault on our very democracy, and I was considerably more worried about the country than about
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