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Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
6. 99% agree
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 07:23 AM
Jun 2021

Been saying all along he was symptom, not the cause.

His one master skill is knowing and taking advantage of the weakest elements of the human spirit, and while the GOP of its own volition was headed this way as you accurately not for decades before he came down the escalator, he knew he could take the whip from the "establishment" GOP and did.

He did not build the monster, but he did know he could, and did take control of it, and while it probably was inevitable, he took it to a level where it now is that it full on, overtly attacking America democracy.

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