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Video: Stephen Colbert's Riff on Reality Winner and the Trump Horror's Downfall

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can't think of a decent username6/07/2017 7:03:37 pm PDT

From the last thread:

re: #543 BeachDem

Per Charles P. Pierce (damn, the man has a way with words, doesn’t he?)

The Trump presidency is not an accident of history. Conservative politics has been moving toward something like it ever since Ronald Reagan declared that the national government was the problem. It has been enabled by a consistent trend toward civic disengagement, some of which was encouraged by ambitious men in the wake of Reagan’s success.

And the genuine danger going forward is that the next ambitious American authoritarian will not be a half-bright bungler dancing on strings held by god-knows-which foreign autocrat or banker. The next one might be better at it. After all, the template has been established, and the Republican Party has demonstrated a taste for authoritarianism that history says is hard to shake.

The Trump political template has to be crushed to dust so that it never rises again. Until it is, it remains a cancer on the republic that’s only in the most fragile remission.
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The problem being — no one has any clue how to crush it to dust.

So I guess, get used to the idea of you, your friends, and your family dying in the camps. This seems way less than fucking ideal.