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Lots of younger Republicans don't remember what it was like, all those years ago....

...during the first Christmas Obama was in power
We called it the long night.

No Christmas lights on houses. No Christmas decorations in public.

No one could talk about it. Obama's secret police were everywhere. But still. We heard the stories.
Mall Santas were disappeared. No one knew what happened to them, their families never heard from them again

Obama's FEMA troops burned entire Christmas tree farms to the ground.

Merely saying Merry Christmas got people waterboarded. And worse.

You could only say Happy Holidays
But still, we met in secret.

Republicans would huddle in each others homes, pull the blackout curtains over the windows, and then, for a short while, we were free. We would whisper carols, exchange Christmas presents, and keep hope alive.

Better days would come...
And eventually, they did
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