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Arun's avatar

Trump was never the problem. He was always a useful idiot exploited by the Republican leaders to push their hardline/extremist agenda and policies. They have tuned their voters to expect this extremism and are stuck in that maze. Until and unless their leaders show the courage to effect true change, it is just old, stale wine in a new bottle.

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ThatтАЩs pretty much it, right? Republican elite want lower taxes and deregulation. ItтАЩs that simple. It doesnтАЩt matter if there might be a good argument here and there for a more nuanced take on the role of government. It doesnтАЩt matter if anti-monopoly and anti-polluting legislation may have real value to we the people. It prima facie has no value if it gets in the way of our wealthiest and biggest corporations doing what they want to do when they want to do it.

TheyтАЩll get behind any R nutso as long as the nutso delivers on those two items. They know Boebert, Green, Gaetz and Trump will do that. Walker will do that.

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