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and "I want mine," which includes the very social programs they'd been taught to vote against. 2016 was a rejection of the party while managing to still remain fanatically aligned against Democratics. Rump had promised to protect those programs from their own party.

The Republican leadership serves ultrawealthy conservatives determined to continue the transfer of wealth and power to themselves and destroy all social programs. Rump's so far greatly enabling these goals, his cabinet stuffed with their agents.

“In 2018, Trump will provide the greatest fundraising and get-out-the-vote machine the party has ever had.” Okay. But Rump won't be controlling it.

One thing, most of 2016's Republican voters will still be aligned against the Democrats to an effectively fanatic degree and are completely unrepentant. Rump is not the worst they could have foisted on the nation. With the help of the archconservative machine driving the GOP, I'm very afraid he won't be.

We have to win.