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To paraphrase the late NFL coach Dennis Green: "The Republicans are who we thought they were!"
They are Trump. Not just supporters of Trump. Not just the party of Trump. They are duplicates of Trump in every way.
They are a existential threat to our democracy. They only respect power and money. Nothing else. There is no working with them. There is no bi-partisanship.
There is only defeating them at the ballot box. The Democratic party has to defeat them any where and every where they can. No more writing off congressional districts. We need to go to a 50 state strategy on steroids. We need to get deep on state and local levels.
We're not in a civil war, but we may be in the next closest thing.
