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Gun control or just simply control?
Either or both, there is no excuse for grown ass-people posing with their armed children. They look pathetic. They want the left to fear them, but seriously, I pity the kids and I find them disgusting. No fear involved. Thankfully this is a subset of their party.
But then there are the rest of the Republ…
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Gun control or just simply control?
Either or both, there is no excuse for grown ass-people posing with their armed children. They look pathetic. They want the left to fear them, but seriously, I pity the kids and I find them disgusting. No fear involved. Thankfully this is a subset of their party.
But then there are the rest of the Republicans not posing as tough guys and gals, the ones that want to use the Supreme Court to bully the rest of us. They too don't make me fearful, they just make me furious, because my nature is to protect the most vulnerable.
Your through line is accurate, Thom. Republicans have reached a point where they have failed to disavow or keep in check their bad actors. Instead they endorsed a psychopath after his mental state was on full display. The Klan, Germany, and authoritarianism is exactly where the line leads.