Things were so different back then.

Rule of law, adherence to the Constitution, justice, sanity, appreciation for factual truth.

All gone in the blink of an eye.

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At left is the reason that I don’t shop at Walmart, and you shouldn’t either.

Asking American taxpayers to pay Walmart employees enough to enable them to eat is an outrage.

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My gardener, skilled as he is with his hedge-trimming shears, can get you a better haircut, but I deeply appreciate what you’re saying here.

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To the reader who sent me this:

Are you suggesting that they committed suicide or were killed in plane crashes?

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I admire Jamie Raskin, and I completely approve of what he said at left. In particular, we do, the vast majority of us anyway, “reject these authoritarian priorities.”

The problem arises when Trump smirks and asks, “So what are you going to do about it?”

Dictators who have successfully replaced democratic governments have enormous power to bully those who represent a challenge to their authority.

 

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In response to the question at left, I would remind this Norwegian fellow that democracies have fallen into dictatorships in countries all over the world since ancient times.

Consider the people of Germany and Italy in the early 20th Century, both of which populations were powerless to depose a ruthless strongman wielding incredible propaganda.

I’m not saying that it’s too late, or that it can’t be done, but it takes a great deal of hard work.

 

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Only a modern-day Republican congressman would have the nerve to say …

And only a Trump supporter would be stupid enough to believe that Democrats are more willing to brave the cold than Republicans.

 

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We are within a gnat’s ass of becoming a dictatorship.

A full 37% of American voters support this, as do a majority of congressional Republicans.

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Sure. Let’s get rid of the entire U.S. Constitution while we’re at it.

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It should come as no surprise that millions of people believe that Trump is Christian — simply because he says he is.

These are the same people who believe that the 2020 election was stolen, that COVID was planned by the U.S. government, that the Jan. 6th insurrection was an act of love, and that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by corrupt scientists.

 

 

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