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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   By Jamelle Bouie   
      
   Opinion Columnist   
      
   President Barack Obama promised unity. In his 2008 campaign, he said he would   
   heal the nation’s political divides and end more than a decade of partisan   
   rancor.   
      
   To keep this promise, Obama needed allies, or at least partners, in the   
   Republican Party. But they said no. If they could block Obama — if they could   
   withhold support on anything significant he planned to do — then they could   
   make   
   him break his promise. Republicans would obstruct and Obama would get the   
   blame.   
   Which, you might remember, is what happened. By the 2010 midterm elections,   
   Obama was a divisive president.   
      
   Joe Biden, in his 2020 campaign for president, promised to get the coronavirus   
   pandemic under control. With additional aid to working families and free   
   distribution of multiple effective vaccines, he would lead the United States   
   out   
   of its ongoing public health crisis.   
      
   I think you can see where this is going.   
      
   Rather than work with him to vaccinate the country, Biden’s Republican   
   opposition has, with only a few exceptions, done everything in its power to   
   politicize the vaccine and make refusal to cooperate a test of partisan   
   loyalty.   
   The party is, for all practical purposes, pro-Covid. If it’s sincere, it is   
   monstrous. And if it’s not, it is an unbelievably cynical and nihilistic   
   strategy. Unfortunately for both Biden and the country, it appears to be   
   working.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/opinion/republicans-anti-vax-covid.html   
      
   The Republiscums/QAnon are moral traitors to the United States.   
      
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