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Uncle Joe

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9. That's what I thought as well, most of them anyway, it looks like a microcosm

Sun Oct 17, 2021, 02:07 PM

Oct 2021

of the pre-Trump Republican Party with the strong adherence to total social conformity, which of course paved the way for Trump to dominate that party as they always placed the greatest emphasis on having a "strong leader" whether right or wrong.

I believe the absolute devotion to monolithic thinking was/is that party's long term Achilles heel as that dynamic transferred from their electorate to their Senators and Representatives.

Now if Mitch says yes or no, they obey with a bare minimum of actual, objective deliberation on whether it be good policy or not.

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