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It was a perfect storm of disastrous proportions. After a handful of conservative billionaires spent a generation gradually buying off every last Republican in Congress, a traitor named Donald Trump conspired with a foreign enemy to rig the election, which left the Republicans temporarily in charge of the White House, the Senate, and the House. In so doing, Trump destroyed the GOP\u2019s reputation, ensuring it won\u2019t hold another majority for a generation. And so the donors decided to force the party to commit mass suicide today in the name of one last cold hard cash grab.<\/h4>\n
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There is not an ounce of hyperbole in the above paragraph, and if anyone tries to undersell it to you, they\u2019re lying. Countless Republicans in the House and Senate voted to end their own careers by voting Dec. 20, 2017, for the most hideously corrupt piece of major legislation in United States history. It raises taxes on the middle class to the tune of at least a trillion dollars, explodes the deficit by another trillion dollars, and takes health care away from tens of millions of Americans, so that all of the money can be given to the wealthy instead. Why vote for something so grotesque?<\/h4>\n
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It\u2019s simple, if startlingly evil. Most Republicans in Congress don\u2019t even really bother with small dollar donations anymore, because their campaigns are funded almost entirely by the billionaire donors. Those donors demanded that this thieving legislation be passed, and if it didn\u2019t happen, they\u2019d have pulled the plug on those donations. That would have left every Republican in Congress with no budget for re-election, and facing a well funded primary challenger. So they chose to end their careers by passing the bill, instead of ending their careers by not passing it. Here is what happens next….<\/h4>\n
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