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The masse cheering this on have been told for decades that this is what they want. This is a response to Reagan's welfare queens, The $600 dollar hammer, and "activist judges". They think this is freedom. That this is good governance.

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The way I’ve been saying it is the Right did such a good job of inventing phony boogeymen to get them elected (and then never do anything about said boogeymen) that they finally bred a generation that thinks their BS is real.

Wheel-warring with democrats, who previously carried out their own subtle power grabs, perhaps. I wouldn't really know, but I suppose "corruption" might mean "things that benefit the other side".

"Those guys stole a cookie from the cookie jar. Therefore I'm entitled to rob a bank."

"Those guys walked on the grass. Therefore I'm entitled to demolish the building."

No, I'm not making moral judgment here, I'm searching for explanation.

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