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Leaked Chats Show Alleged Kirk Killer 'Doesn't Fit Into Any Tidy Narrative'
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We're starting to see Democrats react to things the same way MAGAs do. It may not be pretty, but the Michelle Obama Doctrine of "When they go low, we go high," led directly to the successful rise, and revival, of MAGA, so getting a little ugly has been needed for a long time.
Do you mind expanding on this.
They shouldn't have been so polite at the rise of MAGA. THE FBI have known that Trump was tangled up with money laundering for Russian Mobster Oligarchs since at least the early 90s. I always assumed that the reason they never arrested him was because he was an informant.
So they knew exactly who he was when he got the nomination in 2016, and they should have arrested him then, but the Democrats were too polite. That's what kept Obama from being a great president - he was too polite to fight back. We ended up with Trump as president as a result, with the predictable incompetent results.
But we managed to wrest it back, and had the opportunity to crush MAGA for all time. Biden would have been well within his Constitutional rights and especially his RESPONSIBILITIES, to declare Trump and his henchmen to be National Security Threats, and arrested immediately following his Inauguration, and I mean within minutes.
But Biden followed the same weak polite policy for his entire presidency, and not only didn't press the prosecution of Trump, and others, he didn't promote his many other successful policies. In the absence of his celebrating his own success, MAGA was happy to fill the space with flat out lies about the same policies.
We saw them stealing the election in real time, and I have a hard time believing that our intelligence agencies didn't know exactly what was going on, and yet the Dems did absolutely nothing, and allowed MAGA to steal another election, and probably every election in the future.
And then there was the Dems standing aside, pouting, snorting, and stomping their feet, as McConnell stole two SCOTUS seats, instead of doing anything substantial.
MAGA exists because bullies can only exist when someone agrees to be their victim. This is why I have been an Unaffiliated Independent since I first registered to vote in 1977. I don't want to be a bully, and I don't want to be the weak weenie victim.