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This deserves a response. I was always a pro choice, pro civil rights moderate that felt completely comfortable in the Republican Party. Jacob Javitz, Tom Kean, Christie Whitman, Jack Kemp were the people I was drawn towards. Obviously, today, the party is filled with liars,
Extremists, nuts and fanatics. I have never agreed with all of the positions of a candidate I worked for. Who did until Trump? I live in America not the Reich. Also; my views were informed by a small c conservatism which was that precedent would matter. For sure, you will
never ever be in the room where a Supreme Court nominee is being prepared. I promise you this. When Alito was being prepped 100 💯 percent of the people involved thought he was a main stream conservative jurist who would never obliterate an established precedent because back
then there was a difference between judicial Conservatism and Radicalism. That moment was 10 years before National Review wrote its NEVER TRUMP cover which was 6 years ago. Much has happened since. This Alito draft is one of the most radical opinions written in American
Jurisprudential history. We have a growing, ascending and merging fascist and theocratic movement in America filled with people who hate American freedom. A lot of them have National Review on their resumes. This isn’t about abortion. It’s about control. That’s what I oppose.

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