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Thanks (I guess!) to Aaron C. Brown for alerting me to this piece. \u00a0Unfortunately, I see my own attitudes abundantly represented in it.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 If Donald Trump secures the Republican presidential nomination, I predict that the party will experience an electoral disaster on a grander scale, possibly, than Senator Barry Goldwater\u2019s 1964 defeat. \u00a0The Supreme Court \u2014 to which Mrs. Clinton, the overwhelmingly likely Democratic nominee, will appoint at least three justices \u2014 will go further to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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