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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, January 11, 2024

The Coward's Obituary

 Josh Marshall exposes the cowardice at the heart of the Chris Christie campaign, much less the two remaining non-Trump options. The GOP has already been a semi-authoritarian movement. ("Democrats need to fall in love, Republicans just fall in line." "The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill Of Another Republican.") Trump has taken away the plausibility of democratic processes within that party and now wishes to do the same nationally. 

As Marshall says, "Sad".

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