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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

'An Existential Threat To The Republic'

The Nation: The Hate Behind Donald Trump’s Success - Why is no one in the Republican establishment directly condemning Trump’s nascent movement of thugs and fanatics? By Sasha Abramsky
These men and women (GOP power players like McCain, GW Bush et al) know what Trump is. They have to understand what is at stake here. They have to see that Trump and his followers have now crossed fundamental Rubicons, embracing such antidemocratic, such thuggish views—the mindset of the pogrom, the death squad, the race-and-religion war—that they now represent an absolute and existential threat to the Republic.

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