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The 'Motte & Bailey': Political Jousting's Deceptive New Medieval Weapon


By John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations
June 19, 2020

At first blush, the most incendiary political slogans of our time come across as calls for kumbaya.

What sort of person wouldn’t believe that black lives matter?

What’s wrong with believing women?

Who doesn’t want to make America great? (Maybe ISIS doesn’t, but you get the idea.)

Those almost anodyne claims turn out to be deeply divisive because they can provide linguistic cover for far more controversial corollaries...

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