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“A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left…” quote by John Avlon — Download Open image

“A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.”

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