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GOP - GROSS OLD PARTY -- Repeat: To the millions who still believe Trump is their savior. Trump is a poseur who presents himself as an enemy of the elite. A modern day Robin Hood. See below. It's important to remember what a prolific liar Trump is. And it's important to consider why Trump didn't elect to enter politics as a Democrat candidate.

"Insurance companies are pulling out of entire geographic areas because of climate change and no one is talking about it. Might just be a random coincidence, though, huh science deniers?"

First a lengthy excerpt from the post this post sits in reply to:

"Team Trump’s axis with Hitler’s American friends: The ex-president’s family and allies are teaming up with Nazis and antisemites
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[Insert: Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal
"Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History”"
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The response to the Green New Deal provides us with a catalogue of
conservative arguments in all their schizophrenic glory.
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In 1991, the economist A.O. Hirschman published a short book, The Rhetoric of Reaction, in which he argued that conservative arguments from the eighteenth to the twentieth century all followed the same basic logical structure and deployed the same rhetorical formulations. It’s hard not to recall Hirschman’s argument as we see conservative opinion already amassing to place the Green New Deal outside the bounds of respectable discourse. Back in the 1930s, the foes of the New Deal repeated their central arguments over and over again, no matter the specifics of the particular legislation then up for consideration. Critics warned that the New Deal would cause permanent damage to the foundations of the American economy. They feared that its measures were hasty and irrational. And once their complaints built to a crescendo, they argued that the flurry of legislation introduced by Roosevelt and the other New Deal Democrats intended to do little more than perform the necessary rescue mission to save capitalism from itself could only result in the creation of a totalitarian state. Squint your eyes a bit at the brewing pundits’ assault from the right on the Green New Deal, and you can see nearly all the same basic structural arguments in play. A.O. Hirschman is long gone, but the rhetoric of reaction sails serenely on, deployed against the nightmare of climate change with the same breezy, repetitive insistence its adherents once rolled out to argue against a coordinated response to the Great Depression.
[...]The proposal for a federal minimum wage (which passed in 1938) aroused still greater alarm among business conservatives.
[...]Such activists as Rev. Gerald Winrod of Wichita, Kansas—the founder of an organization named Defenders of the Christian Faith and Republican senatorial candidate in 1938—perceived the Roosevelt administration’s recognition of the Soviet Union as proof positive that the “hidden hand” of a Jewish cabal (the same one that had plotted the Bolshevik Revolution) was really pulling the strings. Father Charles Coughlin’s radio broadcasts with their sinister depictions of the “international bankers” who controlled Roosevelt reached millions of listeners. As historian Matthew Avery Sutton has argued, a substantial number of evangelical Christians strongly suspected that FDR was literally the Antichrist. (Online, such fantasies continue to circulate today: For one example, an organization calling itself the Christian Party has one lengthy post on the 1930s that describes the “Jew Deal” as “a tyrannical, plutocratic, Communist program for a Jewish collectivist state,” concluding: “The name that will live on in infamy: Franklin Delano Roosevelt / THE RED DEVIL !!!”)
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A substantial number of evangelical Christians strongly suspected
that FDR was literally the Antichrist.
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Even more unimaginably perhaps, today we have a modern day version of Hitler’s American friends.

These people aren’t hiding. They aren’t fringe or subculture. Apparently, they aren’t ashamed to be associated with neo-Nazism, antisemitism, or even Hitler himself.

They have podcasts and hold rallies. They post antisemitic memes on social media. They are proud in their unabashed bigotry and defense of the world’s most terrible person.

One, Scott McKay, claims that Jews were behind 9/11 and the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, that they set up a banking system “in exchange for the blood sacrifice of a child,” among other wild assertions .. https://biz.crast.net/eric-trump-tourmate-scott-mckay-claims-jewish-people-are-traitors-and-hitler-was-really-fighting-the-same-people-were-trying-to-take-down-today/ .. , and he’s praised Hitler for “actually fighting the same people that we’re trying to take down today.”

Another unsavory character, Charlie Ward .. https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/eric-trump-touring-another-antisemite-who-shares-pro-hitler-propaganda , similarly praises Hitler for “warning us” about Jews, regularly posts antisemitic garbage, and has alleged that the so-called Jewish media lied about the Holocaust.

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Eleven years ago. Oh, toss in a 'particularly Chris Christie' connection of back then:

As Escapees Stream Out, a Penal Business Thrives
A company with deep ties to Gov. Chris Christie dominates New Jersey’s system of large halfway houses. There has been little state oversight, despite widespread problems, The New York Times found.
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Yet with little oversight, the state’s halfway houses have mutated into a shadow corrections network, where drugs, gang activity and violence, including sexual assaults, often go unchecked, according to a 10-month investigation by The New York Times.

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