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It Could Happen Here Weekly 95

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Importance of Understanding the Stakes

Trump's problems here are twofold. One is that he is not capable of loyalty to anyone or anything else. Bush also is system loyal. But Trump just like didn't have enough control of the state apparatus and tried to sort of replicate it with street files. The whole democratic system was more or less of the edge of failing and a dude who was good at war stepped in and was like, okay, okay, we don't want to do this. This is one of those things right? We know what this looks like with Bush were like if you actually know how to press the buttons of the system, right? You can do this. It has poor as pulled one out.

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