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   From: webspermeater@polaris.net   
      
   By Michael Gerson (Republican)   
   Columnist   
   May 3, 2021 at 1:35 p.m. PDT   
      
   For the activist base of the Republican Party, affirming that Donald Trump won   
   the 2020 presidential contest has become a qualification for membership in good   
   standing. For the party’s elected leaders, accepting the clear result of a   
   fair   
   election is to be a rogue Republican like the indomitable Rep. Liz Cheney   
   (Wyo.)   
   — a target for Trump’s anger, public censure and primary threats.   
      
   Nothing about this is normal. The GOP is increasingly defined not by its shared   
   beliefs, but by its shared delusions. To be a loyal Republican, one must be   
   either a sucker or a liar. And because this defining falsehood is so obviously   
   and laughably false, we can safely assume that most Republican leaders who   
   embrace it fall into the second category. Knowingly repeating a lie — an act   
   of   
   immorality — is now the evidence of Republican fidelity.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/03/trump-republicans-big-lie/   
      
   Republiscums/QAnon need to be exterminated.  Forget about them being unfit to   
   govern — they are unfit to live.  They are a clear and present danger to the   
   republic.   
      
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