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5. The forces that enabled him remain and are now even wealthier and more powerful.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 04:17 PM

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And our institutions have been corrupted.

I'd love to believe we could just quickly snap back to reality and normalcy and Donnie would just be a painful blip in a long arc of progress.

But sadly, I see us now more in a long decline, as Rome once was, with Donnie more of a Nero, Caligula, and commodus rolled into one rotten, orange heap.

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