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I'm another Michael in the history business, but (deservedly) less prominent than Beschloss. This has been coming since the 1930s. Really. At that time, republicans fought over whether to try to destroy the New Deal or accept it and try to limit it, as Ike believed. But there hasn't been a republican elected president since Eisenhower who got into office legitimately--Nixon with Vietnam peace talk shenanigans in 1968 and Watergate in 1972, Reagan with the hostage crisis in 1980, Bush I with the slandering of Dukakis--not simply criticism, but actionable slander--and then his son and now Orange Hitler conducting coups (2000 was a coup--if in another country the candidate's brother was in charge of the province deciding the election, we would go ballistic). Since the 1960s, republicans have been committed to destroying the government because the government protected people other than white males. And Democrats have not understood--and too many still don't--that there are no policy wonks in the republican party. You're either a traitor or not a republican. That's it.

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Dana's avatar

I've been a giddy optimist all of my life. I thought when we elected Obama in 2008 that we might have turned a corner, that maybe the light of that shining city on the hill was what I was seeing at the end of the tunnel. Now I know it was only an oncoming freight train full of ignorance, fear and rage fueled by racism inspired and encouraged from the top down. I feel flattened, and discouraged, and, yes, fearful. Because of Dobbs 50 percent of Americans have lost authority over their own bodies and because of Bruen we're all packing now. What happens when the first Texas Ranger stops a car full of women at the New Mexico border? We're already teetering on the precipice of a second civil war and one incident like that could shove us right over the edge.

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