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Well So Much for That

  Here are a few takeaways from the last couple weeks. The first is that the removal of Trump from office was an absolute imperative. I know some of you on the left will not see it that way. Some of you will say that Biden and Trump are interchangeable. I know some on the right who will say that, yes, Trump is awful but that he is the lesser evil. The first group are opposed in principle to all ‘lesser evil’ reasoning. They want a ‘woke’ ‘progressive’ worker’s paradise now and regard all results short of that as basically equivalent. The others regard Trump and the Republican Party as the last bastion of ‘traditional values’ and will overlook literally ANY character flaw or flagrant crime in Trump and literally ANY misstep in policy to keep another white, Christian septuagenarian out of the white house on the grounds that he is not quite white and not quite Christian enough. If such people are educated (and a certain number of them are) they see the Republicans as the party of Allan