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Ben Howe, on Red State:

"I’ve been beating the drum of #NeverTrump everywhere I go the last several days and have been fortunate enough to have some networks offering me the air-time to do it. Interestingly, many on the right side of the aisle keep “warning” me that I’m being used by the lefty media who wishes to co-opt my message to fulfill their own dirty narratives.

"The problem with that warning is that I’m in full agreement with the dirty narrative being described.

"For the first time in my career, I am completely aligned with the talking points of the left on the GOP presidential nominee. He is a dangerous sociopath who uses xenophobic & racist dog whistles to stoke fear in masses of uninformed voters so that he can get to Washington and use the power of the pen to push billions of dollars to corporations as he cuts deals behind the scenes that benefit the most powerful and corrupt people in the world.

"Yes, we’ve actually nominated someone that sounds like he was created in a lab by Michael Moore."

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[karakara98.livejournal.com]

I've kinda been waiting (hoping?) for the Republican party to split apart since 2010. I say this as a proud Massachusetts Moderate Republican. I want to get past the culture wars and have an honest debate about the right way to govern. I am actually becoming a pretty big Charlie Baker fan. it's not that I love everything he says or does, but I do love the fact that he just wants to get on with governing the commonwealth. In energy, the area of policy I know and understand best, he's holding us efficiency programs to account for our spending, but still supporting ambitious programs. My best case scenario this election cycle is that Clinton trounces Trump at a Reagan-Mondale scale landslide, and the Republican party gives up on trying to heal itself and splits into two--crazy and technocratic. This election is just highlighting how out of touch I am with the "main stream", and I don't know what to do about it.