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NJCher

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10. Personally, I'm
Mon Jun 15, 2026, 06:11 PM
12 hrs ago

not someone who is pushing a Sisyphean boulder up a hill. In my assessments, I take sliding approval ratings into account. There are many other factors working in our favor--so many that if I sat here and listed them, I'd be here until 9 p.m.

I like what Heather Cox Richardson says, which is that people challenge democracies all the time. She says they most often fail. What, she asks, makes you [trump] so special that you'll be the one to succeed? This the question she puts to him and his (dwindling) number of supporters, as he nods off to his indubitable deathbed.

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