Reply #184: Sort of like van Papen believed that, once Hindenburg appointed

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Hitler Chancellor in January 1933, Hitler could be controlled and brought under the control of mainstream German\Prussian conservatism.

I agree with you about Gore's mindset in 2000. None of us (myself included) thought we'd see the repudiation of 50 years of liberal democratic (again lowercase 'd') values, to be replaced by a strange meld of Yosemite Sam and Texas Yahooism.

Truth to tell, I blame myself as much or more than Gore for not pulling my head out of my ass in November of 2000, dropping everything in California and heading to Florida to give battle to the brownshirts in the streets of Florida.