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To: Alex MG who wrote (445410)	7/5/2020 8:29:03 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542940

He's losing steam. He's losing his mind. He looks unwell. Maybe he'll drop dead- but if not, he doesn't appear to have the energy for a fight once he loses the election. He looks like senile babbling racist grandpa at this point. Even a lot of republicans will be glad to see the back of him at this point. He's killing the GOP (for which I will be eternally grateful.) Trump did do America some good- it flushed out the racists, the fascists and the cultists in the GOP- and America got to see those ugly fuckers for what they are. Repudiation to follow swiftly- knock on wood. Most Americans don't want to be lumped in with Russia- and cast as pariahs by the rest of the world. Humpers excepted, of course.

To: Alex MG who wrote (445410)	7/5/2020 11:14:50 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542940

FWIW, I just ordered her book: To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet while visionary Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower shared Lincoln’s egalitarian dream, their attempts to use government to guard against the concentration of wealth have repeatedly been undone by the country’s moneyed interests and members of their own party. Ronald Reagan’s embrace of big business—and the ensuing financial crisis—is the latest example of this calamitous cycle, but it is by no means the first. In To Make Men Free, celebrated historian Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, showing how Republicans’ ideological vacillations have had terrible repercussions for minorities, the middle class, and America at large. Expansive and authoritative, To Make Men Free explains how a relatively young party became America’s greatest political hope—and, time and time again, its greatest disappointment. amazon.com