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Campaign groups have written to officials in nine states urging the former president be barred from running for office for allegedly inciting an insurrection.

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[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I agree that we need something to stop the hate machine, but it occurs to me that there are still people who carry water for him that in the event of his sudden absence and power vacuum, another toady political figure is going to immediately take up the reins. I wonder how many decades it will take for the reverberations of Trumpism to fade. The Whigs existed in America well until the Civil War... and has even been revived in the last 10 years.