Seattle-bashing hasn't produced electoral gains for Washington's right wing -- but there's money to be made if you're a

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Seattle basked in the national limelight some years back. We were America’s most livable city, gorgeously situated with a booming technology-fueled economy.

We placed near the top, as a place to be young, find rewarding employment or even romance, in most of those magazine “best places” nationwide surveys.

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Nowadays, however, right wing media and Donald Trump are sullying our reputation and depicting the Emerald City as a crime-infested hellhole. They’re working to generate fear and are pretty artful at it. We are the target of the dark arts of disinformation.

The city has been in the crosshairs of national right wing media, from Tucker Carlson to Bill O’Reilly to Sean Hannity, while a chorus of right wing “influencers” and podcasters denigrates us on the home front. For example, Jonathan Choe, of the extreme right wing Discovery Institute, is paid to create posts on Twitter and other platforms with images of homeless people living in squalor and cursing “far left lunatics.”

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