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The Unmitigated Gall

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9. If they succeed...
Mon May 15, 2023, 01:05 PM
May 2023

IMO, it will be by exploiting fault-lines that have existed in this country since it’s founding, that we have never fully addressed as a people. Racism, inequality, our own ‘murican caste system might ultimately prove our downfall.
It was in ‘96 that my father-in-law declared that “all democrats should just be put up against a wall and shot”. Putin was years away from power at that point, but GOP radicalization was well underway.
We’ve left ourselves open to these attacks; only a matter of time before our enemies figure a way to tear them open.

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