Biden's Withering Olive Branch

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16. YES, many did. I DID. You really should have.

The Repub leadership and their donors have been the "organized conspiracy" to keep and seize more power that Steve Schmidt called them for a long time now.

Since the 1990s they've been increasingly smashing laws and norms meant to protect our government from people like them, but they got much worse in the 20-aughts. BEFORE Trump. Bush II did a lot more than just resume torture and lie to America to invade Iraq for the oil. Trump's a symptom and great acceleration of what's been happening on the right, not its cause.

“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”

― David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

When Bernie Sanders talked about revolution, he should have been warning those who listen to him that the Republicans' revolution had far more ruthless zealots, was extremely well organized, enormously funded, and already dangerously advanced.