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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
as in every fraught controversy, a person’s actual record is *a much better way to judge them* than the least charitable interpretation of a quote stripped of directly exonerating context-we all say discrete sentences different than what we actually mean, and it’s important — PolitiTweet.org