It's amazing how much of my YouTube stream has been taken up by Nicole Wallace and Sarah Longwell and Tim Miller and George Conway and the Bulwark and the Lincoln Project, etc. I guess, on one level, I get it, because I'm clearly not someone who is in favor of the current authoritarian regime. That said, it doesn't mean that I like this crew, and, seriously, they can fuck off. The reality is that they're all Republicans, all children of Reagan, and some of them directly played a role in the nightmare that George W. Bush unleashed on the world. I can't help but think that their rage is directed less at Trump's authoritarian regime, but rather that they're no longer the inside players shaping the autocracy. If Trump and MAGA disappeared tomorrow, they would happily skip back to an only slightly less abhorrent and slightly less racist and slightly less Islamophobic and slightly less misogynistic GOP, but one that provided the requisite tax break. The fact that they're given such a central role in the anti-Trump world is a testament to the right wing dominance of American media and the total failure of the Democrats to provide a different path forward.
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