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The media has focused on Project 2024 which is sponsored by the Heritage Foundation. However, the Republican platform is actually Project 47! It’s chilling and can be accessed through Wikipedia. Read it, then vote. 💙🇺🇸

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Sorry- Project 2025

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I join others in hoping that your column on a Trump victory will never need to be published. I have absolutely no doubt that what you describe will come to pass, and I continue to be horrified by the naïveté that surrounds us. If he does win, you will need to bring back many cases of cognac for your readers!

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Your imagined column is so well written! I sincerely hope that it will never have to be published. If it has, Heaven help us all (including Europe). Regards from Denmark where we are looking at the US in horror at the moment.

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I am also nauseously optimistic from here in Georgia. I feel relatively confident that Harris will win and will win here in Georgia.

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Yes, I'm nauseously optimistic also- I like that phrase.

Enjoy your vacation! Charlie. Will try and make sure you've still got a country to come home to.

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Listen to Friday's post from Tim Snyder. Chilling. It scared the sh!t outta me.

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-strongman-fantasy-text-and-audio?r=xhx53&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Chilling! I agree.

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I voted yesterday. For Kamala. I fell into a time warp and was looking for election returns last night when, snap, I realized that it was only Fiday night. This is the first time since I started voting forty four years ago that I voted early. This is the most consequential election of my life. I read somewhere that it would be wise to buy a gun “just in case”. I seriously thought about it for a minute and have come to the conclusion that I am sufficiently well armed using only my father’s military dress sword. Take that MAGAs! I cannot shake the sense of unreality that we are teetering on the precipice of some bad shit. I thank God for a wonderful blessed life (dogs,grandkids,still working) and know that no matter what happens, we will endure.

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Where would we be in all this without man’s best friends?! Thank you, thank you for the pics!!

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Thank you Charlie!

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I will just point out that the American Colonies were only slightly better than other revolutions. A significant number of colonists supported the crown. There were murders and imprisonment of Tories who were actually following the law. People were tarred and feathered which often resulted in death from infection. People were arrested and then died from disease from being held in squalid conditions. The property of Tories was confiscated. Loyalists were harassed and intimidated.

If Trump wins or steals this election, that kind of behavior will return. I don’t live in a red state, but I might as well be in Kentucky in the part of the state that I do live in.

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Reich, Wehner and Luttig (and the late Michael Gerson) are favorites of mine.

Thanks.

Here’s to Cognac!

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The only reason we didn't see the Hitler version of Trump in his first term was because he couldn't take total control of the government. Enough guard rails held. He was too narcissstically infatuated with the glitter of the presidency to concoct a Reichstag fire until it was too late. A second term will not have that problem. His enablers have had four years to plot the total takeover. It won't be Trump, but JD Vance who is the beneficiary. He's not even 40. Shudder.

I believe enough Americans know the danger and not necessarily because of patriotism, but because some policy threatens them personally. I fear we won't take the real lesson from Trump. America is not about me, it needs to be about we. If that's not the case, the vast majority of us are not going to count at all.

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I mean, regarding American mob violence, there was plenty of it during the revolutionary war, and during the racial nadir. Tarring and feathering Redcoat sympathizers sounds like a joke, but that's second and third degree burns over most of your body.

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I believe Harris will win, but if she doessn't, I'm out of here. I have not decided if that would be permanent, just four years, or just until Trump kicks the bucket, finally.

I will say that, while I'd be in Italy, i will always be "l'americano" for them. Same is true in almost any foreign country.

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Love the dog pictures...keep it up. Trying to avoid all the pre- election hype in this country and wish I was in France. Yes Marie Le Pen is a threat but she doesn't wield the power Trump will should he win. I don't think his using our nuclear arsenal is beyond his guardrails...he will have no guard rails. I am truly terrified and glad I have lived most of my life in a free if imperfect America. Thank you for all the above writings....if it comes to pass I will take my final exit and weep for America and all the children coming up who will be scarred forever by the language and demeanor of this horrible human being.

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