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380 w/ Robert Draper "Democracy is on the Ballot (Cause They Crazy)"

The Fifth Column

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You Know, I'm a Republican and I've Been a Political Reporter for a Long Time, but I Don't Know What to Think.

Michael Wolraich: I think this is a uniquely insane situation. It might be, but it's not unique in the sense that this stuff has never happened before. Every single one of those people could have showed up with an AR-15, and they didn't. We've seen paranoid notions or let's say suspicions of government take on healthy forms. And then by animating force, I mean that this is now as fundamental to magathy, analogy, and thus to the Republican Party as the crucifixion was to Jesus.

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