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Here's Another Principled Republican from Decades Ago on a Living Wage, Are These Guys Extinct? (Original Post) thomhartmann May 2017 OP
That sort of Republican is extinct for all practical purposes Vogon_Glory May 2017 #1
They're gone. Replaced by criminals, traitors, and thieves. dalton99a May 2017 #2

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1. That sort of Republican is extinct for all practical purposes
Wed May 24, 2017, 11:11 PM
May 2017

Today's Republican Party lurches somewhere between some of the more spectacularly corrupt post-Reconstruction, pre-New Deal Democratic state parties and early 20th century Latin American oligarchical parties.

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