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Austin Ruse's avatar

Not debating conservatism.

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Sumi Ink 🇨🇦's avatar

Which is telling.

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Austin Ruse's avatar

It’s not interesting.

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Sumi Ink 🇨🇦's avatar

Yes, you admitted above that you are far more interested in the tearing down of our institutions, which is why you support Trump. The antithesis of conservative.

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Austin Ruse's avatar

Our institutions have become sullied, poisonous, dirty, dishonest.

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Sumi Ink 🇨🇦's avatar

So tear it all down and start over with Trump in charge?

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Austin Ruse's avatar

I am hoping for internal revolutions at each of the institutions.

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Sumi Ink 🇨🇦's avatar

Do you have any idea how radicalized you sound?

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Austin Ruse's avatar

Do you realize how radicalized millions of us have become over what has happened these past years?

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Sumi Ink 🇨🇦's avatar

Yes. Radicalized by the cult of Trump.

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Austin Ruse's avatar

And I would add that many of the fine people that I know in these institutions are also deeply troubled about what has happened to them.

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Austin Ruse's avatar

I was very much an institutionalist. I live and work in the Washington DC Milieux, and have for a few decades, and I know many fine people at the FBI, CIA, State Department, so on and so forth, but after what we have witnessed over these past several years, having to do with Trump, I no longer trust any of these institutions.

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