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highplainsdem

(48,727 posts)
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 01:23 PM Oct 2020

David Cay Johnston: Will Republican Cultists Die For Their Dear Leader?

https://www.dcreport.org/2020/10/07/will-republican-cultists-die-for-their-dear-leader/


Instead of shooting someone on Fifth Avenue, spraying lead bullets out of a gun, Trump sprayed the deadly coronavirus with every word coming out of his unmasked mouth.

Among those whose lives are now at risk – the seven children of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who sat mask-less in the Rose Garden on Sept. 26 when Trump announced their mother was his Supreme Court nominee. As an exercise in atrocious judgment bringing children to a crowded event during a pandemic and not masking them should be enough to establish that Barrett is unfit to sit on any bench.

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And what about the 11-month-old baby of Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s press secretary. She has tested positive after again and again showing her fealty to the imaged great leader by going mask-less. Does anyone doubt that if McEnany were a poor black or brown woman—or a Jew or Muslim in a Bible Belt county—that child protective services would be investigating whether to remove the infant Blake for her own safety?

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The reason, rationality, and civil debate envisioned by our Founders and Framers have no place in Trump’s anti-democratic cult. All that matters is loyalty to the leader, a loyalty that runs only one way.

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David Cay Johnston: Will Republican Cultists Die For Their Dear Leader? (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2020 OP
This has been obvious for the past few years. ananda Oct 2020 #1
they are that crazy, we will find out when Trump loses how many are willing to commit mass murder... Thomas Hurt Oct 2020 #2
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