Trump’s gambit is bad, but Vance’s is even worse. He’s one of Ohio’s senators; these are his constituents. How can he endanger them like this?

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    Man I really wanna believe that because thinking that people like them could never be happy brings me a sense of solace in a kind of ‘turns our there is still such a thing as consequences’ type of way

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      It’s true. The basics of fascism are that you need an outgroup to blame for everything. If you somehow kill the outgroup, you have to invent a new one. Otherwise, people start asking for actual solutions to societal problems, and fascists don’t know what to do with that.