I tried to watch that interview (not this well-deserved rebuttal, this original) and just couldn’t. Despite Callaghan and team’s best (sincere) efforts, Nick just comes off like the fucking moron he is.

Ignorant about the things he himself has chosen to squawk about, while also truly lacking the mental “equipment” to engage with the topics in any complexity.

Like, any complexity, he seemed completely unable to manage the difference between the ideas “95% of Somali immigrants are law-abiding” and (his claim) “89% of fraud in Minnesota is committed by Somalis”. Those can actually both be true and they aren’t even very complicated but it was too much for him.

To be clear I’m not weighing in on those stats whatsoever, just the fact that he could not navigate the nuances between them at all.

He’s not just wrong and hateful, he’s flat out incapable of understanding the exact phenomena that he somehow feels called to scrutinize and then scream about. I’d love to just call him a clown and move on but his flavor of horseshit is SO dangerous these days, as we see!