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In 2017, JOHN DEAN wrote an insightful article worth reading. Among his observations that still ring true are the following:  We know enough about authoritarian supporters from research, and history, to know it will be very hard to change their minds about the leader they adore. They are extremely ethnocentric, dividing the world sharply into people in their in-group, and automatically disliking all others. They feel politicians who promote minority rights and immigration discriminate against them. Donald Trump tells them they are right. He is their champion. They are highly dogmatic. They get their ideas from others in the in-group, especially from their leader, not from evidence and logic. They say there is no evidence that will make them change their minds. They’re quite comfortable believing “alternate facts.” They get great satisfaction from being part of a large movement. Being in a cohesive crowd at rallies thrills them because they silently tell one another, just by being t...

  THERE IS NO INDICATION THAT MAGA GOP HOUSE HAS ANY SANE, RATIONAL MEMBERS CAPABLE OF MOUNTING SUBSTATIVE ARGUMENTS...THEY JUST BABBLE & THREATEN....REGURGITATED BY THE BOSTON HERALD PROPAGANDA RAGE:   —  “Boston Mayor Wu, other mayors may face criminal prosecution for sanctuary policies, House Republicans say,”   by Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald. THE BOSTON HERALD PROPAGANDA RAG DESERVES SCRUTINY!  QUOTES GARY PALMER:  “I’ve been considering referring charges,”  U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer, an Alabama Republican,  said at Wednesday’s hearing of the GOP-led House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “I don’t care who it is, I don’t care what office you hold, we need to abide by the laws passed.” NOT AN ATTORNEY! WHAT LAW WAS BROKEN? JUST A MAGA MAGGOT THREATENING!  Palmer was born in  Hackleburg, Alabama . His family lived on a 40-acre farm, where Palmer helped maintain the family garden and animals. [ 5 ] Palmer has a  b...

  By  Kelly Garrity BRAVO BOSTON MAYOR MICHELLE WU!  PASS NATIONAL GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION!  PASS IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION! BOSTON STRONG —  Republicans on the House Oversight Committee looked to deliver a death blow to  Democratic mayors over their handling of the immigration crisis  . They ended up giving Boston Mayor Michelle Wu fundraising fuel  and a more prominent place in the national Democratic psyche. Wu rolled in dressed for the occasion —  baby in tow, with a visible Ash Wednesday cross on her forehead — before taking her seat alongside her fellow mayors: New York Mayor Eric Adams, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Republicans on the panel came out swinging,  but Wu leveled several blows of her own. The first-term Democrat fired off an early shot at White House border czar Tom Homan. “Shame on him, for lying about my city, for having the nerve to insult our police commissioner, who has overseen the ...