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The first part of your comment may be true, but it’s leaving out an important caveat: he’s very much directly responsible for the current state of his party, and the rabid base he helped create.
I think that’s some important context.
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I’m scarcely excusing his actions on a number of fronts, especially the SCOTUS clusterfuck he engineered. But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.
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But his support for riling the base up was of the Tea Party, not MAGA, flavour.
That seems like a distinction without a difference.
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He doesn’t deserve less culpability just because he underestimated how much evil he’d do
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