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Hortensis

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6. Our issues are local issues constituents care about

Reply to RhodeIslandOne (Original post)

Wed Aug 22, 2018, 03:36 PM

Aug 2018

and restoring decency and competence to government. These are the midterms.

Trumpsters can't run on the closing of local hospitals, climate change and lowering water tables, the growing economic problems of the middle class, jobs lost to Trump's tariffs, worries about changes to the tax code, who can afford to pay $30/lb for the higher quality steaks at Safeway. We can.

Let them rant on about hoards of brown-skinned murderers to the hard-core 24% who still identify as Republican.

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