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Peter's avatar

Greg, the party of Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Cheney and McCain is alive and well in the MAGA Party. The only difference is that Trump and the MAGAs don't feel the need to hide the racism, the hate, the misogyny, the authoritarianism and the fealty to evangelicals and billionaires. I'm old enough to remember Nixon's Hard Hats and Southern Strategy. I'm old enough to remember Reagan in Philadelphia, MS and the Nazi Cemetery. I'm old enough to remember Bush and Cheney and their war crimes, lies and "You're with us or you're with the terrorists". And I'm old enough to remember McCain the maverick as a far right wing ideologue. The only difference between all of them and the current MAGA horde - they seldom said the quiet part out loud, and except for Newt and Delay, the saw Democrats as the opposition, not the enemy.

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I wake up every morning -- earlier and earlier -- with a refrigerator on my chest. Every morning, a larger and larger, heavier and heavier model. It takes me hours to lift it off (with a fork lift). Some days it just stays there and I go to bed with it on my chest.

The weirdest thing is that is that I've been predicting just this, writing about it, warning about it, since the days of Bush v. Gore and the Help America Vote Act -- but, now that it's here, I can't believe it. Can't believe how this malignancy -- Stage 4, metastasized -- is killing us. Can't believe the evil. Can't believe the destructive force the diseased brain of one man has been capable of unleashing.

It is, literally, too much for my brain to process.

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