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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

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Making Cancer Great Again

 It is difficult to plumb the depth of the MAGAt mind, but can anyone explain why they are trying to wipe out cancer research?

I suppose this is the logical endpoint of Grover Norquist's lifelong quest to "shrink government down to the size where you can drown it in a bathtub." Still, the idea that we can return to a 19th century government is just manifestly dumb and self-defeating, it beggars belief.

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