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What an outstanding report, Arun! It's so sad, frightening, tragic that so many Americans have drunk the ignorant bloated orange traitor's Kool-Aid, displaying a level of ignorance and zombie-ism of unbelievable proportions! Mass stupidity, a mindless cult. Thanks for this.

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Thank you for real reporting. Thank you for being able to listen and hear. I worked for Voter News Service the 2000 Presidential election out in red, rural South Carolina. The voters I interviewed voted the Republican ticket as directed by their pastors and continuous phone calls from various PACS. They did as told but they were mad and tired and feeling harassed and overwhelmed by their "side". I thought many were open to something new. Unfortunately, the only new element in the last 2 decades has been Mr. Orange. We hoped for change but were crushed. Whatever happens on Tuesday there will be no real good or new policies coming- not for the poor or the peaceful.

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Colombia, cocaine, connection, Christian, Constitution, corruption??? What could possibly go wrong? David Rem is a worker who hates public schools and is thankful to his leader for having a father generous enough to pay for his private schooling. He hates taxing the rich and took this opportunity to announce that he's running for Mayor of New York City. The 'Führerprinzip' is alive and well. "Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war with the cross of Jesus going on before.."

If you get a chance, Google "On February 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, and Fritz Julius Kuhn was a featured speaker." In his speech, Kuhn said, "The Bund is fighting shoulder to shoulder with patriotic Americans to protect America from a race that is not the American race, that is not even a white race... The Jews are controlling everything and the white man is thrown out of his job.... The Jews are enemies of the United States.... All Jews are Communists.... Christ was not a Jew..."[

If you're familiar with right-wing propaganda these days, you'll have heard of the Great Replacement Theory. from Wikipedia:

The conspiracy theory found support in Europe, and has also grown popular among anti-migrant and white nationalist movements from other parts of the West; many of their adherents maintain that "immigrants [are] flocking to predominantly white countries for the precise purpose of rendering the white population a minority within their own land or even causing the extinction of the native population".[10] It aligns with (and is a part of) the larger white genocide conspiracy theory[b][10] except in the substitution of antisemitic canards with Islamophobia.[16][15][17] This substitution, along with a use of simple catch-all slogans, has been cited as one of the reasons for its broader appeal in a pan-European context,[16][18][19] although the concept remains rooted in antisemitism in many white nationalist movements, especially (but not exclusively) in the United States.[20][21]

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