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Amanda Blevins' short-circuited epiphany was not all that remarkable. She was a woman of fierce independence and individuality, who had fallen prey to progressive blandishment. It took only a look at the gross mess of a Philadelphia slum to wake her up. 'Get rid of 'em all', she said.

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Americans have taken capitalism to an iconic level. Whether marital relations or buying a new car, the playbook is the same. Men negotiate for sex, and women to avoid it. Used car dealers chop the clock, and buyers are skeptical. The minute we wake up in the morning, the meter is running, and Donald Trump gets it.

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History shows only that the clash of civilizations, societies, and cultures is permanent; and that one side will always prevail. Along the way civilization - art, literature, science, and its darker corollaries - will spread, be defended at all costs, and will last until the turning of the screw

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Hold on to your hats - there will be a lot of demolition noise and dust and the building of new foundations in the next four years. Not for the faint of heart; but the craven have already run for the exits

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History whether that of a family or of a country is currently up for grabs, a kind of pleasant chimera, shifting and changing depending on the teller. The more distant the historical event, the more self-serving interpretation and reconfiguration there is.

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Of all else - reduction of taxes, energy independence, closed borders, a muscular foreign policy, judicial reform - the radical elimination of unnecessary federal agencies is perhaps the most important. If government goes, then the country is free to prosper. Afuera!

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The beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder nonsense will soon be dismissed, gone, and forgotten. Men who have yearned for the likes of Marilyn Monroe for millennia, now can come out from under wraps

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Here, staring them in the face was the whitist White House in recent memory, a blonde, blue-eyed monument to white privilege. The black man would be back in the cotton fields, the brown one picking lettuce. How could their perfect vision of a motley-colored, marvelously diverse nation have faded so quickly?

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And so it was that yet another dinner spoiled by hysteria came to close. The invited guest needed help out the door and down the walkway, and under the light of the streetlamp was seen crying at the steering wheel. Doomsday, she thought. Yes, Doomsday, the only way out.

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An electoral defeat is one thing, but to have one's conviction of right rejected out of hand is entirely another. No wonder liberals are an inconsolable lot. Their very being was tossed in the gutter

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The second coming of Donald Trump will be a real insurrection - not the violent, guillotine, chopping block kind, but revolutionary nonetheless. No shibboleths will be left standing in the aftermath. The country will return to its Enlightenment, Jeffersonian origins, a far, far better place that Americans have seen in a long while.

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'Hate Has No Home Here', said the lawn signs in Bob's white suburban Washington neighborhood, a reference to racism, homophobia, and misogyny; but the irony was lost on him as he seethed venomous hatred at the white fools who had elected Trump. This animus was not hatred, he reasoned, because it was righteous anger. He was a good person.

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Most conservatives have once and for all stopped calling liberals progressives, for nothing in their bag of tricks is forward-looking and promising. They are Utopian idealists at best who have been shown the door and won't be back for a long, long while.

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Wha' happened', said a lawyer tossing down another shot of Wild Turkey at the bar of the Olde Ebbitt Grill, two blocks from the White House and watering hole of Biden/Harris people. 'Didn' see it coming'; and there it was in a nutshell. The fools never saw it coming, overreached, overestimated and shat on the voters who could have made a difference. 'We'll get 'em next time', the lawyer said as he stumbled his way out to Pennsylvania Avenue. 'Next time.'

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More than anything the progressive culture of moroseness will be gone. No more breast-beating, rending of garments, wails of grief and misery. America's genius will be celebrated. There will be all-night, bright and sparkling Gatsby-esque parties. Glitz, glamour, and beauty will be back.

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Harris is still in hiding. Congratulations would be a sign of capitulation to Nazi terror. 'I was supposed to be elected. I was supposed to be the first woman to sit in the Oval Office. There must be something I can do. Think, Kamala, think!!!'

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America had passed him by. He was social detritus, leavings, insignificant, noticed by no one. Insurrectionist? If only he had been, it would have been some record of having belonged. As it was he was trash