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I would like to ask Laura Egan SPECIFICALLY, which causes favored by Democrats she would have us not mention.

Is it the abandonment of those asylum seekers who, without proof, have been kidnapped and sent to a hellhole in El Salvador because "the border" polls well?

Is it the obvious acceptance of bribery by crooks foreign and domestic wishng to do business with the United States government?

Is it the decimation of useful functions of the government in the name of ending "fraud, waste, and abuse" in government? I would note here that waste is a subjective matter, abuse has no real meaning, and fraud is a crime. If fraud has been committed, WHERE ARE THE INDICTMENTS? The people who have lost their jobs are not fraudsters, but the bitcoin-pushing bloodsuckers may very well be. Should we not mention this because Musk had some popularity?T

Maybe it's the participation of trans athletes in women's sports. I actually think there is some validity to the idea that this might be unfair in some cases. But would stopping support for it stop Republicans from talking about it? See "defund the police" which maybe half a dozen dems ran on in 2020 but was still a potent weapon for the GOP .

in 2024!

Donald Trump does many things that poll extremely poorly. But he does them anyway. And pays not enough political price for it. Because he's seen as bold, not timid.

In every case, Egan seems to favor bowing to the Trump line as pushed by Fox and the rest of right-wing media. Whatever Fox says is what the American people want and we just need to accept that fact.

We need people who fight, not people who obsess about polls.

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Wow! One of the ten likes I got to the above is from someone going by the name "Hillary Clinton". Could this possibly be Hillary Rodham Clinton?

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To expand further on this, we can see splits in MAGA now. Laura Loomer is deeply disappointed in Trump’s acceptance of a bribe in the form of a Qatari jet. Of course she opposes it for Islamophobic reasons but she isn’t wrong that this deal stinks to high heaven as corruption.

Instead of trying to pound wedges into the R’s rotten coalition, why is the Bulwark spending so much time pounding wedges into ours??

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