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that's what victory looks like. i'm being serious that a lot of this is going to involve depressing turnout of low-propensity voters

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this is just fucking school shooter mentality — the ad is not effective at persuading people away from acton *or* toward ramaswamy, he's already gotten blasted by national *and* local republicans for it, he's spending four fucking million dollars to bomb the airwaves with it just to make her suffer

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even if you are an utterly amoral psychopath, the reason you, as a politician, don't do an ad like this — and you very fucking especially, definitely do not do it yourself, through your own campaign — is that you do not want voters to ask themselves whether they want to be a part of this

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the one thing Trump has been successful at is jettisoning the Bush-era old guard, whose last stand was the Texas primary. what is left are the weird freaks both of the “measuring immigrants’ skulls” and “obsessed with culture war issues thought settled two generations ago” variety.

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