The notion that Sarah "unites" voters--aside from a small number of people who gravitate to her -- is ludicrous. She alienates thinking people, literate people, compassionate people, and intelligent people almost every time she speaks by using rhetorical gimmicks and crude categories and push-button phrases designed not to inform or bring abount understanding, but to stimulate reactions.

Some people, it is true, go in for thatkind of rhetoric because it is electrifying to be told to "reload" and to think about shooting animals from a helicopter.

But the rest find her divisive.


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