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It must be nice to trust Republicans so much. Perhaps I am a little older than Ms. Manjoo, as I was a whopping -1 when Nixon spied on his political opponents. And I was already twenty-something when cancer-victim-divorcer Gingrich impeached Clinton for a blow job and named it "family values." And I was around thirty when Tom DeLay laundered campaign money in the name of children and Dick Cheney bankrupted our country and called it "fiscal responsibility" and George Bush skewed the intelligence and spied on and locked up and tortured and killed innocent people and named it "freedom."
I want to believe in your "democracy," Ms. Manjoo, I do! But they didn't get enough religion into the schools fast enough, I think.
I hope.