I Spent a Year in Right-Wing Facebook Groups and This Is What I Learned

I’ll never be the same again.

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Ever since my teens, I’ve identified as left-wing. At first, it was a rebellious act of defiance against the town I lived in. Most people were at least right-leaning, even if they insisted they “didn’t care about politics.” I felt proud to be on the left, which I had idealized as “the good…