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hoolstoptheheels

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My guess is, not here. I think it took a certain confluence of things to


Make it get to this point - not just that it voted in a psycho nationalist populist demagogue, but that the demagogue turned out to be so good at his craft, particularly with tools like social media now available to him. Country club pubs implementing a southern strategy to support Nixon and Reagan could not possibly have foreseen all this.

Look, while I’ve always been a registered indie, I was a pretty damn loyal republican until 2004. I’d have laughed at you until tears rolled out of my eyes if you predicted that the repub party would literally become a cult of a personality in around 20 years when I was voting for Bush back in 2000.

(In response to this post by WahooRQ)

Posted: 05/12/2021 at 08:43AM



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  Good one, Dan. ** -- Molina 05/12/2021 09:05AM
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