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In a statement to CNN, Kennedy explained his flip-flop by demonizing the press, expressing gratitude for working with Trump today.

And I think I’ve spent most of my life kind of demonizing it and choosing not to understand it because the easier thing for me was to just be angry at it.

As Medvedev documented, the precondition for destroying public confidence in science is to demean and demonize scientists — as “enemies of the people,” as saboteurs and grifters.

She equated women openly refusing to date Trump supporters to those mythical misandrists who "demonize men altogether."

During election season, expect to hear Republicans peddle falsehoods about abortion to discredit it and demonize the people who provide or support it.