Republican pols aren't the problem, as repulsive as they are,

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3. Those poor naive Republican voters.

Thank you for this. Although it is critical that anti-democracy pols be called out, we too often fail to place blame on those who control them — the despicable share of our population who knowingly and willingly demand today’s anti-American vitriol and actions. They are well aware of what they are fostering and are addicted to it. Their minds will not be changed. So we work to out-number them and overcome their efforts to suppress our numbers or to render those numbers inconsequential.