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"There is no end in sight for this lunacy."

Giving 'soldier of fortune' a new spin, Prince and DeVos personify institutionalizing this lunacy. And not in a good way. Their personal wealth catapulted them to positions where they can weaponize government funds to destroy government. Trump is the coming to fruition of Reagan's *government is the enemy* lie.

It took decades of faceless functionaries, such as Leonard Leo, funneling big money to the little men and women - from the McConnells to the Boeberts - eager to take down government for the chance of gorging themselves on crumbs from the tables of the unconscionably wealthy.

"... ranging for revenge, with Ate by his side come hot from hell, shall in these confines with a Monarch's voice cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war."

Shakespeare imagining Marc Anthony imagining the dead tyrant Caesar rousing the funeral masses to revenge.

Republicans imagining Trump's January 6 rally. The confines of the Capitol where all hell broke loose at the defeated GOP's command.

Reagan's lie and Trump's insurrection have their roots in the defeated Confederacy's wild rage at the Federal government. Which for generations has sold sedition as a noble cause and metamorphosed historic traitors into heritage heroes. The Birth of the Nation. Inflamed terrorists in bedclothes rather than togas. And now on the high bench of the Supreme Court, their faces hidden from the public, but in their racist decisions their white supremacist sheets peeking out from under their black robes.

The passionate irrationality of religion runs through it. Racial and economic injustice in service of Mammon. From the Supreme Court bench to the banqueting tables. From the rapture of the populist believers to the bunkers of their paymasters.

How to end this lunacy? Pass the KoolAid. Pass it up when they pass it around.

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Richard's avatar

What the radical right projects on to others is what they do when they have power- ignorance mixed with malevolence. But I have to say that confusing gestapo with gazpacho is comedy gold.

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