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Mar 12, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Thank you, Greg. Citizens United opened the door to Russian mob money, and desperate Republicans were there to suck of the great bear's tit like madmen. Followed by kompromat and manipulation of primary challenges, the desperate GOP folded like wet tissue. They are utterly owned by Russia and Transnational Organised Crime now

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/organized-crime

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Mar 12, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Thank you for another incredible piece, Greg. I don’t think I need a second cup of coffee this morning after reading this Greatest Hits of Outrage of the previous administration and the aiders and abettors who continue running down such a disgraceful and destructive path, and who wish to drag the country along with them.

What I love most about PREVAIL is that you don’t merely report facts; you place them in unusual contexts or frameworks that reveal previously unseen angles and perspectives. I often find myself looking things up (words I don’t know, which appear often here but are also perfect descriptors), and diving down rabbit holes of different authors or scenes from history or poetry that rattles the mind and stirs the soul. This is what intellectual curiosity looks like, and I think many here would agree that it is what makes the work on these pages so exciting and powerful.

Thank you.

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The time is now. I hope the world can see that we are not deceived anymore the light is shining brighter and truth will win out and the deceiver and his followers will be exposed by the light of the progressive (radical left) and this my friend is how the rudder will turn if we truly love America and our social democracy we better keep the light shining on truth

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I was thinking after Biden's address to the country how so many people I know have light in their eyes for the first time since I met many of them after moving to NC in 2016. I see it with news and commentary hosts, delivery people and neighbors. I am hopeful.

But, I'm going to be a bit of a Debbie Downer. I remember before we traveled to Istanbul in 2012 the excitement across the middle east as the Arab Spring was in full swing. Our hosts in Turkey talked about this guy, Erdogan in fearful tones and whispers, having no clue who he was. The world was filled with hope for a sea change away from authoritarians and unending conflicts.

With your article today, your series on Kavanaugh, an article I read last night about the far reach of Bannon's tentacles and Dave Troy's recent emergence with an in depth history of the CNP and it's broad reach and ownership of the RQP's. I am so worried about the focus and 'strategery' as Colin Ferrell so aptly played Bush on SNL, and the machine beyond our borders that is in full swing. The RPQ's, as anyone who witnessed the Wisconsin representative and Stacey Plaskett's response, are with a bullhorn telling poor, middle class white Christians "that black and brown people need to be returned to their place", "shoot em if they threaten you and heck, why not, even if they don't and by all means pass laws not allowing them to 'talk back' to cops", "they don't deserve government benefits" "women and the LGBTQ communities are destroying the military" and "families" for that matter. I'm equally worried about the exhaustion leading to a 'one off' in voter turnout for the 2020 election with unbelievably the midterms around the corner which Mitch McConnell is laser focused on.

This last election was a master class in voter mobilization and yet, 40,000 votes in an archaic and electoral system designed to empower white, rural and less populated states, would have resulted in the "other guy" returning to office and god knows what real carnage we would be seeing today. I don't know if voters realize the good that is happening: a plan for COVID that will expedite the return to 'normal', the most diverse and female centered cabinet and military leadership in the history of the US, a female VP who is also a WOC, an economy that for now seems poised to return, an authentic focus on the environment and prioritizing tribal communities and their needs and so much more. Yet 1000 x's more needs to be done to solidify a strong government for the people. Like the Arab Spring, the dark and wide swath of forces people don't see are like vultures hovering. Trump is a dying carcass whose MAGAts are feeding off of him, including Russia and China and the far-right within our country and abroad.

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Mar 12, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Perfect choices of adjectives to characterize the progression from Buckley to Greene

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This is one is a roll call keeper. Thank you. A professor could spend a whole year on just this piece.

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Great synopsis of the current state of the Republicans as they circle the drain.

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I have held off subscribing...until reading this morning’s post. You channel the outrage, concern, and, let’s hope, the resolve of many of us. Thank you.

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I do like the way you string words together ! :)

Something I keep wondering about: where are the Republicans Against Trump, the Lincoln Project, etc., etc. ?

How long will it to take them to emerge from their battened-down hatches and Do Something ?

Surely these various groupings weren't formed only to help Biden win ?

Hands up anyone else who saw in them people who intended to form a completely new version of a conservative party ?

Not that I'd have an axe to grind for one - I'm no conservative and would be a die-hard Democrat voter who spits upon neoliberalism.

No: I just want to read that ex-Republicans have popped their heads up, looked around and decided that now is the time to offer reasonable conservatives a platform upon which to group, eschewing everything associated with the scumbag arseholes of the Republican Party.

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Add Jimmy Carter to the list of those who unabashedly accuse Putin and fellow freaks of interfering with our precious democracy. In an unguarded moment President Carter accused the Kremlin of electronic interference with vote totals in 2016 that handed the Rat Bastard the presidency.

Jimmy Carter is not one for histrionics or hyperbole.

He says it happened, it happened.

Every member of Congress implicated in the attempted take down should e prosecuted as a traitor. Trump declared war. They picked up the weapons, shouted through megaphones and incited the weak-willed angry white men who appeared at the Capitol seeking Pence and Pelosi.

Stop pussyfooting around the facts. Stop understating the words. Call it what it is, treason.

We hang traitors. So let it be with every one of them.

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