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keep_left

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6. We have also seen that recently with MTG and Matt Gaetz.

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 12:01 PM

Yesterday

IIRC, MTG and Gaetz were planning to start a "WASP-American 'think' tank" of sorts, feeling that those Americans who couldn't trace their history back to the Mayflower weren't "real" Americans: the Irish, Italians, Slavs, Poles, etc. It's about as extreme and anti-American as it gets, but here we are.

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