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JHB

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13. It wasn't so much HIS program that took root and grew

Mon Dec 30, 2019, 03:50 PM

Dec 2019

All of this was fostered for decades by Movement Conservatives using and abusing every single tool they could find to gain a margin of electoral victory in order to pass an agenda that, by itself, isn't popular enough to win.

Allowing for technology, all of the tools were in play a quarter century ago. (Before Facebook, there were email-forwarding chains, wingnuts made it their mission to take over comment sections on general websites and forums, etc.)

Putin simply cloned a second set of controls.

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You can feel the revisionism picking up speed in real time... [View all] Soph0571 Dec 2019 OP

K & R...nt Wounded Bear Dec 2019 #1

Yup my father fought a war to defeat the Nazis Farmer-Rick Dec 2019 #2

Gee. Who would have the desire and wherewithal to divide people so grotesquely? Kid Berwyn Dec 2019 #3

Evil personified blm Dec 2019 #4

I wish it was JUST Putin... albacore Dec 2019 #5

+100 Duppers Dec 2019 #10

It wasn't so much HIS program that took root and grew JHB Dec 2019 #13

When I was about 8 or 9, we live on the near west side of Cleveland ... marble falls Dec 2019 #6

Powerful memory! FailureToCommunicate Dec 2019 #7

I lived in the Cleveland area for 5 years, in wnylib Dec 2019 #9

In a lot of good ways, those were the days. marble falls Dec 2019 #15

Trans Women of Color have always been at risk this way. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #8

There was a man being interviewed on MSNBC Skidmore Dec 2019 #11

There is nothing going on. Who said that, specifically? maxsolomon Dec 2019 #12

As I said, I didn't catch his introduction Skidmore Dec 2019 #14