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Ol Janx Spirit
(1,080 posts)...the institutions of government to deal with Trump and Trumpism--the very same institutions that they had completely shredded leading to January 6th.
We got bipartisan sternly-worded letters from congress and that's really about it.
And it does not seem Democrats have really figured out a better strategy yet.
It's hard to imagine that you could be handed a bigger political gift than your opponent inciting a riot at the capitol building--including destruction, smearing of feces, and the carrying of Confederate flags--and do so little with that fact that the same opponent would be elected again.... I'm sure Biden and a lot of the people around him believed that fact would be enough, but in the horror movie we lived through with Trump 1.0, they should have known that you do not ever assume the bad guy is not going to walk out of the flames to attack you again. By the summer of 2021 I felt like Jason was still very much alive.
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