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Reproductive rights, a reasonable tax structure, laws surrounding health insurance, net neutrality, US climate change action, international goodwill, staffing of government offices, a literal ban on immigration targeting countries with high populations of Muslim people, the literal of rule of law with regards to the powers and checks of presidency.

Our Nazi infection is just the most recent flare up of our white supremacy herpes. At least you and I have the cultural context to know what's up with that. Our parents and grandparents have seen it before and they weren't surprised. I wonder at the white people who believed themselves to be above all this only to find their neighbors actually talking about ethno-nationalism again, and 'peaceful ethnic cleansing' without the customary white hoods. But this is really a tangent.

The ideological and organizational columns which uphold much of this country are in freefall. Listening to ideologues like Bannon, this is a feature and not a bug of 'new conservatism,' which is really just old school ego anarchism, with the same shocking but intellectually empty polemics. In my naivety, these are things I thought we would never see again in our history, let alone in my lifetime. 2017 has shamed and degraded us as a people and torn away the gilding of some the truths we tell ourselves about our American cultural values. Over the next few years some of us will look at that and attempt to do something about it, but for the most part I think we'll continue seeing people look for justifications to do nothing.
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Whatever happened to standards? Whatever happened to bare minimums?
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