“Dissent is morally neutral. You can correctly call yourself a dissident because you like to kick puppies, but at the end of the day, you're just a jerk who likes to kick puppies.”

—  Jonah Goldberg

2000s, 2001, Cynthia McKinney's Last Stand (2001)

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