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We face a second insurrection today, and most people have no idea how closely it’s modeled on the first one. The new GOP motto might as well be, “We don’t need no stinkin’ issues; we just want power and revenge for the heroes of the Old South.”
Michelle Bocanegra and Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky
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