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Michael Green's avatar

Oh, let's go back beyond Sarah Palin. The Brooks Brothers riots of 2000, and the candidate's brother leading a part of the third world country he wanted to rule? Maybe 1992 and Poppy pardoning everybody who could have implicated him in Iran-Contra? Iran-Contra, for that matter, or Ronnie's guys interfering with the Iranian hostage negotiations? Nixon? Just, Nixon? Goldwater?

I could go to when Ike rolled over for McCarthy, or even the republicans trying to overthrow FDR. It's a pattern.

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TCinLA's avatar

Agreed - As I finish the Heilbrunn book, I am probably going to write a long piece on the Mussolini lovers and the attempted FDR coup. I started where I did just to be sure we operated within the memory span of people not as involved as you and me.

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Kent Anderson's avatar

About a week, 10-days ago, KO had a quote from Orange Nero basically saying what Reagan did in 1980. "You know, this reporter, Evan Gershkovich, we'll get him released after the election." It means that Trump wins, all the prisoners get released, just like Reagan and Iran. Oh, and you forgot the strange vote totals out of Ohio in 2004. Speaking of 2004, I'm still searching for the cyanide tablet that I was going to take if Dubya won.

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