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May 25, 2020, 7 tweets

Will the Coronavirus Kill What’s Left of Americans’ Faith in Washington? nytimes.com/2020/05/23/us/…

Faith in government is not a thing that's gone. It's something we had built over time that the forces of corruption destroyed. It can be rebuilt. The NYT is part of the great failure of established mainstream media. They failed to inform and they...

failed the republic and allowed charlatans in their mix to continue to masquerade around as their peers and so now they have no credibility despite the many great people that work there. Shame on the NYT, but that's a different story. This story is...

faith in government can be restored when we take the media’s financial stakes out of politics and bring about a process where politics is not a race to raise money so you can enrich the media. That’s where it starts. Then the ...

people might have a chance at a sustained effort to restore government and their faith in it. Remember, we brought this about because we were seduced by Reagan, the original Sith high lord of anti-government forces. We had...

the greatest government in the world before we bought his line about how government was evil and corporations were good. You can draw a direct line from that ideology and Donald Trump.

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