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Dear Juliette, note well the names Viola LIuzzo, Chaney, Schwerner, Goodman, Medgar Evers, JFK, MLK Jr, RFK, and on and on. The card has always been part of the deck of US politics, played over and over again. Trump has done nothing new.

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I lived through much of that, but I remember people I knew being appalled. Now they are proud. Chump made such evil attractive to many who previously would have been ashamed. But you are right, evil was just a flick of the switch away.

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At 76 so did I, not sure I've seen much change evil then evil now, just a chump who shouts what people whispered then, empowering them to shout as well.

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What a perfect way to put it. People shouting what they used to whisper. I have a tee shirt that says тАЬMake Racism Wrong Again.тАЭ Maybe I need one that says тАЬstop shouting what you used to whisper.тАЭ So like the evolution of evil in Germany. With no Ike to deprogramтАж.

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