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There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

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Matt Taibbi
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 2
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Matthew C. Taibbi
Matthew Taibbi
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