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"it’s hard not to see the party as committed to partisanship for its own sake, held together only by the negative imperative of stopping the Democrats."

Cleek's Law: today’s conservatism is the opposite of what liberals want today: updated daily.

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Very insightful read from both you and WaPo. I'm getting curious about how "Ideological heterogeneity" led to the slow downfall of the Weimar Republic in Germany ~100 years ago. This led Germany to become fertile ground for conscriptive right wing extremism and nationalism, as well as intolerance of anyone who questioned it along the way.

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