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3. Thanks! I will look for it.

Reply to Celerity (Reply #2)

Sat May 22, 2021, 06:31 PM

May 2021

Right now, I am reading "Democracy in Chains," by Nancy MacLean, and am finding that it illuminates the strange and twisted history of the extreme-right-wing takeover of our current Republican Party. The whole thing reminds me of that wasp that somehow lays eggs in a live moth so that the wasp larvae grow inside, gradually eating the slowly dying moth from the inside.

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