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Billy -- I encourage you to listen to the most recent episode of The Dispatch Podcast. It includes interviews with some journalists who were there interviewing members of the mob, who, according to their experience, absolutely believed and cared that the election was stole. The point may not be critical to your overall purpose -- it is really interesting how fervent and aggressive they were on the Capitol steps, but when there was nothing to push back on them they seemed pretty chill, like the dog that actually catches the car and then doesn't know what to do with it.

But if MAGA's usefulness is expired, it's primarily because it looks bad on TV when you take it to it's logical end, and Trump didn't have the self-control to pump the breaks before it got there. MAGA can, unfortunately, still be pretty useful to somebody with more foresight and discipline than Donald Trump

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I do not for a moment question that many many people say this. I am saying that they are lying and that this is actually something much deeper. The “steal” is that multi-racial representative government that can bind them is a steal. Perhaps I did not articulate that as week as I should. But that’s the lynching parallel. It didn’t matter to lunch mobs who was guilty. It was the indulgence of power over them.

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Sorry “as well” not as “as week” and “lynch mobs” not “lunch mobs”. Thumbs.

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Also, here is a much deeper dive into what I'm talking about, if you want to follow further. https://billytownsend.substack.com/p/bound-part-1-american-representative

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