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BumRushDaShow

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4. Unfortunately
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 11:29 AM
Aug 2016

President O was oft-dubbed "Deporter-in-Chief" given he purportedly "deported" more illegal immigrants than any previous President, although WaPo sought to dispel some of the myths behind that.

In any case, the default position of the GOP has, for the past 8 years, been to say "No" to almost every single action that Obama proposed, including much of their own standard policy positions that he offered to adopt. I.e., they demanded that they would only accept the opposite of whatever he requested, like a simpleton version of "Simon Says", where the participant attempts to anticipate the command too far in advance and gets caught doing the wrong thing.

This is why the GOP has collapsed - they in essence rejected most of their own party's traditional positions, outside of the cultural wedge issues and rampant bigotry against every group other than straight Christian white males, which resulted in a hollowed out version of their former selves, now filled with KKK followers and radical RW lunatics.

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