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If he wins this will be why. A lot of people just want to go back to neutral. Long term I think this could be a disaster but I get the sentiment.
The right is advancing in a similar fashion to Adolph or post-war Russia and I think the only rational progressive response is a series of D-Days. Instead the thrust seems to be isolationism.
To drive this analogy into the ground I feel a lot like FDR before Pearl Harbor. Shit is coming and we need to be on war footing.
The most wrong idea in American politics is the notion that you can ever ever ever ever ever work with Mitch McConnell or his ilk. We need to be working on the political and legislative equivalent of the Manhattan Project to deal with these people, not negotiating with them.
There are a lot of Democrats who think we can work with Republicans, meanwhile the GOP just wants to shred us into bloody chunks of meat. It’s quite a disparity in outlook.
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