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Donny from Queens's avatar

My reflexive response to Erickson is that the GOP as an institution seems to be leaning into the violent crazies. I live in Georgia’s 14th and Marjorie Greene has militia members provide “security” for her at events and sometimes in and around town. It’s very jarring to see far right militia guys with assault rifles just casually a part of the scene around here. If that side of the aisle wants to live like a third rate society, I would say they are dehumanizing themselves and I’m not the bad guy for noticing it.

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Karl Straub's avatar

The most dispiriting aspect of this story, your reasonable analysis, and all the rest of the things in the current landscape, is that I can’t say how we come back from all this.

Even the scenario where Trump is soundly beaten at the polls: does that really walk us back to the normal levels of unhealthy that our political system used to have?

I’m not so sure that our conditioned doubling down habit-- ingrained across our political spectrum-- is ever going away.

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