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Just a guess, but I suspect that perception is based on a steady stream of far right "news" programming. When asked to provide any evidence of the claim he's making, he can't do it.

Peggy Noonan makes the same observation in today’s WSJ column (titled: “The Embarrassing Pete Hegseth”):

Here we must note we are a nation divided by algorithms. If your algorithm knows you as conservative and interested in military matters, you got a lot of videos of young soldiers and sailors acting out the past few years, and of service branches tweeting out showy political sentiments. You felt understandable alarm. If your algorithm knows you as liberal and not interested in military affairs, you haven’t seen that content, and will have been surprised by Mr. Hegseth’s reference to “dudes in dresses.” We are all getting different versions of reality every time we look at a screen, and it’s hurting us.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-embarrassing-pete-...

It is so true. It is the algorithms that are dividing us to cleanly, there is no long a shared view of America or the world. I’m not sure there’s an answer, but there’s certainly a question.

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