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it's also a reflection of the conflict within the republicans concerning relative power.
this litany of floating heads speaks to different factions in different ways---the party is clearly saddled with them, like it or not, even as the mythologies which enframe various of them are continually being revised--away from the sycophantic national review hagiography of reagan for example, now that the economic ideology for which he stood--not that it or anything else was his idea--has het the wall.
i don't think the way forward for the republicans is straightforward--there is always the option of refusing to take seriously what has happened to their political and ideological position thanks in significant measure to the last 8 years---and personally i rather hope that they opt for denial, because it will grind them faster and harder into irrelevance, leaving them with only the hope of some catastrophic fuck up to save them.
it'd be a messianic way to go.
it'd also be ridiculous.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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