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Watching Tuesday night’s finale of The Bachelorette, one phrase kept ringing in my mind: The cruelty is the point. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote those words in 2018 to explain the appeal of Donald Trump’s particularly mean-spirited brand of politics. But the same ethos can be applied to The Bachelor franchise…
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Has The Bachelorette finally gone too far?
Watching Tuesday night’s finale of The Bachelorette, one phrase kept ringing in my mind: The cruelty is the point. The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer wrote those words in 2018 to explain the appeal of Donald Trump’s particularly mean-spirited brand of politics. But the same ethos can be applied to The Bachelor franchise…