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In too many ways, they appear locked in an echo chamber, largely talking to each other and convincing themselves that all intelligent and rational people agree with them.

From Salon

He is just about the last person that a rational citizen would want to put in charge of the nation’s law enforcement apparatus.

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They try to figure out if there are rational reasons people worry about immigration or fail to notice improvements in the economy.

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Relatives I once thought of as rational humans are on Instagram constantly spreading conspiracy theories that are so out there they should be self-refuting, but they've become so disassociated from reality that they don't know or care.

From Salon

It was like a PowerPoint presentation arguing, over the course of seven or eight slides, that we’re the rational, trustworthy folks who will try to build consensus with minor technocratic fixes to the country’s massive and intractable problems, whereas that other guy is a dangerous aspiring F-word dictator who just wants to smash things.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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