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Showing Original Post only (View all)I feel like the occupation of the Capitol and the impeachment [View all]
are an opportunity to literally crush the right wing crazies and their white supremacist leaders. We could snuff this out right now, but are failing and will fail to do so. We will rue this missed opportunity in the months and years to come as the violence escalates.
I can forsee a time when you would fear to enter some ares of the country as there will be road blocks and ID checks, and woe be to the Liberal who gets caught.
I think we're blowing it as a country, like the Weimar Republic did in the 1920s and 30s.
Talk me down.
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Congress met and confirmed the electoral vote the same day as the insurrection.
panader0
Feb 2021
#23
The GOP is fracturing. McConnell has lost his caucus, his position and his power.
Irish_Dem
Feb 2021
#6
It's for Republicans, their voters and donors, to clean up their own house.
meadowlander
Feb 2021
#18
Sorry, can't talk you down. Just listened to Malcolm Nance on Joy Reid's show...
Hekate
Feb 2021
#21