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Bob's avatar

"I ask: “What has happened to [our Congresswoman Stefanik]?” But the answer is obvious. Ambition has happened, and it has found satisfaction in her allegiance to Donald Trump. The only loss has been her integrity."

I agree.

But I also think it's much worse than simple blind ambition and a loss of integrity. It's a willingness, or even an eagerness, to substitute a shared sense of community with a selfish desire for raw power over others. A willingness to defend the use of force against those with whom you disagree, and eagerness to forego a disciplined debate over public policy and political ideology. A propensity to cross the line of normality.

We're now in a new age of American politics. Like the ugly hulk of a building that ruins South Street, our new political age is an ugly hulk that is ruining our American democratic experiment.

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“...she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered. She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. 'The human sound-track' he nicknamed her in his own mind.” - George Orwell, 1984

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