Tag: betrayal

Mike Adams, The GOP is a Political Suicide Cult

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Mike Adams The Suicide Cult Units for Self-Destruction I used to be ultra-MAGA. I was a strict constitutionalist. I was a conservative Republican who believed — genuinely believed — that the party represented the last best hope for individual liberty, honest money, and a government that answered to the people rather than to a cabal of donors, lobbyists, and foreign interests. Then I watched the party march itself off a cliff, and now it’s clear the whole sad, pathetic entity has transformed into a political suicide cult.   The evidence…

Shane GoldmacherJonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, ‘I Have Seen the Enemy, and It Is Us’: Inside Team Trump’s Historic Collapse

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By Shane GoldmacherJonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman                                                  How an unpopular president and an unpopular war provided an opening for Democrats to make sweeping gains in the midterms. Six days before the election, more than two dozen of President Trump’s top strategists logged onto a private video call. The mood was grim. The discussion began with talk of cyanide. “Do you want the white pill first, or…

Al Perrotta, Our Braveheart Moment

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Al Perrotta It’s not about one man. It’s about freedom. Perhaps the most gut-wrenching scene in Braveheart occurs when William Wallace discovers he has been betrayed by a man he thought of as a friend. The heartbreak on Wallace’s face is far more terrible than the torture Wallace would later suffer. You expect brutality from your enemies, but not from your friends. Robert the Bruce had done what was politically expedient at the moment. Betraying Wallace — and his own heart — increased his chances of becoming Scotland’s king. Right now, a…