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Orsino

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6. It's inevitable.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu Dec 28, 2017, 11:32 AM

Dec 2017

The establishment is always strongly influenced by the sitting president. Trump may have pissed on tens of millions, sowing the seeds of his next failure, but the Beltway is normalizing him, and the Federal government is being remade in his ignorant, corrupt image.

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