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Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:26 PM

Trump Supporters Spend Weekend Clogging America's Highways

Source: The Daily Beast, via Yahoo! News

Trump Supporters Spend Weekend Clogging America's Highways

The Daily Beast
Patricia Kelly Yeo, The Daily Beast November 1, 2020

n a show of support of questionable political value, pro-Trump demonstrators clogged freeways Sunday across the country, from New Jersey and New York to Texas, Arizona, and Washington state. "WHOOO! We shut it down baby! We shut it down!" says one pro-Trump videographer as he pans the camera nearly 360 degrees, showing viewers the group of cars that had brought traffic to a complete standstill along the northbound Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.

"You suck, you suck, everyone on the right lane sucks," nearby driver Maddy Pryor says in another video capturing the incident, which Pryor posted to Twitter. Another user named @kabryant17 claimed the stoppage caused emergency personnel to take a delayed route to the hospital, as the pro-Trump demonstration blocked an entire freeway exit.

In neighboring New York, Trump supporter Abigail Marone captured a line of cars and trucks with pro-Trump and at least one pro-law enforcement Thin Blue Line flag on the route between Seaford and Montauk in Long Island. Using the hashtag #TrumpTrain, users also captured Trump supporters driving along New York State Route 25 and claimed to see a similar lineup on Route 106 in Hicksville.

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-supporters-spend-weekend-clogging-201629986.html



Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Cultists Block Traffic On Highways And Bridges Across Country In Last Minute Bid To Woo Undecided Voters
November 1, 2020

https://www.joemygod.com/2020/11/cultists-block-traffic-on-highways-and-bridges-across-country-in-last-minute-bid-to-woo-undecided-voters/

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Trump vehicle convoy shuts down the Garden State Parkway.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10662767

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mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2020 OP
FelineOverlord Nov 2020 #1
BigmanPigman Nov 2020 #42
Sierra89 Nov 2020 #2
Alt-Orange Nov 2020 #3
progree Nov 2020 #4
TheRealNorth Nov 2020 #12
progree Nov 2020 #20
reACTIONary Nov 2020 #41
progree Nov 2020 #50
JonLP24 Nov 2020 #52
orangecrush Nov 2020 #5
hamsterjill Nov 2020 #9
orangecrush Nov 2020 #11
mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2020 #6
central scrutinizer Nov 2020 #7
mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2020 #8
alwaysinasnit Nov 2020 #10
TheRealNorth Nov 2020 #13
PutGramaOnThePhone Nov 2020 #43
vercetti2021 Nov 2020 #14
Laelth Nov 2020 #15
roamer65 Nov 2020 #16
beastie boy Nov 2020 #17
Thekaspervote Nov 2020 #18
SWBTATTReg Nov 2020 #32
keithbvadu2 Nov 2020 #19
spike jones Nov 2020 #21
PutGramaOnThePhone Nov 2020 #44
mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2020 #22
patphil Nov 2020 #23
Name removed Nov 2020 #24
bucolic_frolic Nov 2020 #25
Dyedinthewoolliberal Nov 2020 #26
bucolic_frolic Nov 2020 #27
Mr.Bill Nov 2020 #28
Turbineguy Nov 2020 #29
scarletwoman Nov 2020 #30
PutGramaOnThePhone Nov 2020 #45
scarletwoman Nov 2020 #49
PutGramaOnThePhone Nov 2020 #53
DonaldsRump Nov 2020 #31
TeamPooka Nov 2020 #33
kimmylavin Nov 2020 #34
MissMillie Nov 2020 #35
AZ8theist Nov 2020 #36
mwb970 Nov 2020 #37
hatrack Nov 2020 #38
jmowreader Nov 2020 #39
warmfeet Nov 2020 #40
Evergreen Emerald Nov 2020 #46
Nitram Nov 2020 #47
patphil Nov 2020 #48
cstanleytech Nov 2020 #51
Bayard Nov 2020 #54
SunSeeker Nov 2020 #57
SunSeeker Nov 2020 #55
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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:36 PM

1. Yup. Here they are on the Garden State Parkway

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Response to FelineOverlord (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 09:30 PM

42. This shows how desperate they are an it pisses people off.

Not a winning plan. This will only piss off people and make them more determined to stop this shitshow. This isn't funny, cute, admirable. It is stupid BS from stupid people who most likely are deplorable most of the time.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:40 PM

2. Law Enforcement

Should block all freeway exits and keep their asses on the freeway. Let them run their vehicles until they run out of gas/cannot get home. Cite them for blocking traffic and emergency vehicles. Then tow them all and charge for storage fees.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:41 PM

3. So this explains it

Why I saw this Nazi parade go through the small town I live near yesterday.

Idiots.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:42 PM

4. I'm so confused. I thought it was only "leftist radical extremists" who blocked freeways, according

to RWers, and then went on and on about ambulances and fire trucks being delayed, essential services people late for work etc. etc.

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Response to progree (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:09 PM

12. exactly

I think its a bad tactic when BLM does it, and I don't think this helps the Trumpanzees either.

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Response to TheRealNorth (Reply #12)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:39 PM

20. I can see some rationale for BLM protesting obvious gross injustice, though I agree

I don't think it helps them blocking freeways, but others would argue differently, the Edmund Pettus Bridge and all that.

I see no possible benefit though for in effect holding a campaign rally on the freeway like the Trumpers are doing. I'd say the same if it was a Biden/Harris campaign rally on the freeway.

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Response to progree (Reply #20)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 09:24 PM

41. I would say the same if it were...

Biden/Harris, but.... It's inconceivable.

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Response to reACTIONary (Reply #41)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 11:09 PM

50. Yes, I can't imagine it either /nt

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Response to TheRealNorth (Reply #12)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 11:47 PM

52. Usually police kettle left wing protestors into those situations

These Trump supporters didn't need any help from the police to pull this off.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:45 PM

5. No arrests?

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Response to orangecrush (Reply #5)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:51 PM

9. Right???!!!

I mean, come on! Interfering with emergency vehicles is a crime even if nothing else is.

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Response to hamsterjill (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:04 PM

11. Seriously.


Completely illegal.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:46 PM

6. 'Trump Train' takes over Beltway traffic around nation's capital

Hat tip, Fairfax Underground

'Trump Train' takes over Beltway traffic around nation's capital

By David Matthews | Published 1 hour ago | Traffic | FOX 5 DC

CAPITAL BELTWAY - A "Trump train" of the president's supporters is taking up the middle lane of the Capital Beltway on Sunday afternoon.

And many fellow motorists aren't happy.

A viewer sent FOX 5 footage of the Trump supporter caravan. You can see a parade of cars driving slowly in single file in the middle lane of the three-lane highway:

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The parade around the nation's capital follows another high-profile one Saturday in Texas, where Democrats say the Biden/Harris campaign had to cancel events because of cars with Trump flags surrounding a campaign bus for hours.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:46 PM

7. Got one thing correct

“Everybody on the right ... sucks” (okay, I made a slight edit, sue me)

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:48 PM

8. Texas events canceled after 'Trump train' surrounds Biden campaign bus on interstate

Texas events canceled after 'Trump train' surrounds Biden campaign bus on interstate


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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 05:54 PM

10. And they b*tched, moaned, and complained about BLM activists blocking freeways. What the hell???

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:10 PM

13. they are pretty much going full SS/ Brownshirt now

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Response to TheRealNorth (Reply #13)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 09:40 PM

43. Yup n/t

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:11 PM

14. Small dick army at it again

Look over here! I'm under 5!

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:14 PM

15. Now, that's useful. n/t



-Laelth

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:16 PM

16. These ilk are like a big dump that plugs your toilet.

Just as annoying and bad smelling.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:18 PM

17. Saw about half a dozen of them on Belt Parkway between Brooklyn and Queens

If that's what they call an organized effort at blocking traffic, it was pathetic! They weren't even trying. I was wondering what all six of them were doing driving at the same time in the same direction, but other than that their presence was totally inconsequential.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:18 PM

18. It only hardens the resolve of reasonable ppl to vote the pos out!

They are not doing themselves any good!

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Response to Thekaspervote (Reply #18)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:16 PM

32. ditto!!

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:39 PM

19. Keeping undecideds from getting home is going to make them want to vote Trump?

Keeping undecideds from getting home is going to make them want to vote Trump?

I don't see the logic.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 07:09 PM

21. In case anyone has not noticed, the cops are not on our side. n/t

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Response to spike jones (Reply #21)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 09:48 PM

44. Right!? n/t

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 07:17 PM

22. Caravan of cars supporting Trump clogs Beltway's outer loop Sunday

Caravan of cars supporting Trump clogs Beltway’s outer loop Sunday

Thomas Robertson

November 1, 2020, 5:16 PM

Miles-long stretches of cars waving flags and donning decorations for President Donald Trump caused delays all around the Capital Beltway’s outer loop Sunday afternoon.

The WTOP Traffic Center reported just after 1 p.m. issued caution to all drivers on the Beltway for the caravan, which was traveling below speed in the middle lanes of the Outer Loop.

The Trump 2020 Capital Beltway Caravan started at noon Sunday and was scheduled to end around 2 p.m. The WTOP Traffic Center said delays caused by the event wrapped up before 3 p.m.
on the event’s Facebook page.
Nearly 1,000 people signed up to attend the caravan on the event’s Facebook page. Another 1,900 expressed interest in attending the event.

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Miles-long stretches of cars waving flags and donning decorations for President Donald Trump caused delays all around the Capital Beltway’s outer loop Sunday afternoon. (Courtesy @DCMom2020 via Twitter)

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 07:32 PM

23. Keep it up and they may get a chance to clog the courts and the jails.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 07:45 PM

25. MAGAt Beard Bellies

Hopefully the last gasp of this cult

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 07:46 PM

26. The President should send troops to those places to restore order, right?

I mean, precedent has been set after all............

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Response to Dyedinthewoolliberal (Reply #26)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 07:51 PM

27. They were great people

in both lanes!

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 07:55 PM

28. Yeah, because there's nothing better than blocking traffic

to win people over to your side.

Idiots.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 07:58 PM

29. Yes,

thanks for letting us know what trump's second term will look like.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:00 PM

30. "Last Minute Bid To Woo Undecided Voters" - no, that's not what they're doing.

It's a show of force meant to intimidate and discourage the opposition: "See how many of us there are? See how powerful we are? You can't win against us."

It's a declaration of war.

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Response to scarletwoman (Reply #30)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:15 PM

45. It's fun ...

sort of, to laugh at them and say they are shooting off their own feet. Your thinking on this could be very shrewd. I really wanna think it’s just a bunch of assholes “raising” their asshole game In desperation...but want I want doesn’t make it true.

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Response to PutGramaOnThePhone (Reply #45)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:58 PM

49. I've never laughed at them. I think they're very dangerous.

They are the new Brown Shirts and they firmly believe that they're going to be on top.

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Response to scarletwoman (Reply #49)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 11:48 PM

53. I'm sorry....

I didn’t mean to imply that you were laughing. A better way to get across what I was thinking would’ve been to say that I was ridiculing them as idiots in my mind, and taking a lot of the comments in the thread as expressing the same sentiment. I take your post very seriously. I have posted a couple of times recently that I think we are seeing Brown Shirts in action right now. To be blunt, l’ll say that trump, McConnell, Barr, Et Al. have declared war multiple times. They unleashed the Brown Shirts before yesterday. The greater danger lies with them. The Brown Shirts will only go as far as they let them.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:06 PM

31. I've passed a few of these kinds of Trump rallies on the sidewalk

We just shout to them that "You're doing this because you don't have enough money for ads!" and "Wear your mask!"

They don't like that.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:18 PM

33. Ig one of them posted on Facebook that they are all going to drive off a cliff for Trump, they would

do it.
In order, in line.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:25 PM

34. They were in California, too

I was driving home from my in-laws' today, on the 405.
Their line ran for a few miles, all in the right lane.

There don't seem to be enough Trumpers in Los Angeles to shut down a freeway.
But I did give as many of them the finger as I could...

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:26 PM

35. making life miserable for others... Trump & his supporters in a nutshell (n/t)

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:32 PM

36. It's times like this I wish I could call in an air strike.....

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:43 PM

37. What fresh hell is this?

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 08:52 PM

38. Saw a couple of these asscarrots on the road today . . . not "clogging" anything

One buffoon was tooling along US 50 east of Kansas City, doing about 45 with his flashers on, with flags and a big-ass placard in the truck bed.

Then a couple in a nearby town, driving aimlessly about.

Seriously, a beautiful fall afternoon, and two - two - Trumpy Trucks pointlessly burning gas. You could rake leaves, or play with your kids, or watch football, or shoot pool or go build something in your basement . . . but no, gotta go praise Duh Grate Leedur with yer truck.

Whatever.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 09:14 PM

39. Let's see if I have this right...

Donald Trump is the most hated president since Richard Nixon, so to convince people to vote for him his supporters decide to go to heavily Democratic areas and block the freeway...which will not only piss off the natives, but will make them LESS likely to vote for Trump.

How the fuck does this make any sense whatsoever?

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 09:22 PM

40. Good luck with that strategy.

What a bunch of brainless moron tRump supporters. Redundant, sorry.

Everyone enjoys waiting in traffic. The stupidity is incredible.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:27 PM

46. Clogs like that need plungers.

Just sayin.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:42 PM

47. They actually think Trump will win if they act like frat house boys after a football game.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:49 PM

48. That's going to garner Trump a lot of votes...not!

Bully boy, brown shirt politics never work. All they do is piss people off.

This has been a hard year for everyone, and people aren't going to be denied at this point, even if Trump supporters are acting out like the Trumpsters they are.

Note: Trumpster rhymes with Dumpster.

Dumpster politics are going to be taken out with the trash on Wednesday.

We will overcome!

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 1, 2020, 11:39 PM

51. All of those blocking said exits on purpose should face either manslaughter or 2nd degree murder

charges if their actions are likely to have caused someone to die that was being taken to the ER.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Nov 2, 2020, 12:51 AM

54. Who's bright idea was this?

And what do they hope to accomplish?

I think its going to backfire on them, if they're trying to stop people from voting. Looks more like a bunch of drunk assholes just causing trouble for the hell of it--trump's traveling circus.

I think there are minimum speeds to be maintained on most interstates/freeways across the country. Are cops just twiddling their thumbs?

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Response to Bayard (Reply #54)

Mon Nov 2, 2020, 06:45 AM

57. Good question!

We know Don Jr. Invited a Trump Train to "go have fun with" a Biden Bus in Austin. The Trump supporters ended up raming intp a Biden Staffers' car and almost ran the Bident Bus off the road

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Nov 2, 2020, 06:18 AM

55. Why do they think acting like unhinged assholes will "woo undecided voters"??

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Response to SunSeeker (Reply #55)

Mon Nov 2, 2020, 06:35 AM

56. Intimidate and prevent voters from voting.

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Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Nov 2, 2020, 11:19 AM

59. Really hypocritical in here

I am a former truck driver and have said before that blocking the highways was wrong and unproductive and was told it was an effective technique, seems that only counts for liberal and not conservatives how progressive.

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