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The bald fellow, Joe Borelli (the Republican minority leader of the New York City Council), was being a shitty panel guest by gish-galloping, making unsubstantiated claims and not responding to questions.
People should be called out when they do this for using non-logical debate tactics. But CNN won't, because this is peddling mental junk food, not news.
I was listing to You Are Not So Smart the other day and McRaney did an episode on an argument mapping game, Point Taken, that you can use to calmly and collaboratively debate with people of differing opinions such that everyone comes away learning more. You can play it online, too: https://pointtaken.social/
What I wouldn't give to see politicians play this game instead of verbally debate and trade talking points.
See, that goes totally against what and why they do what they do. Facts and logic aren't going to help their case at all, and they know it.