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The envious man sees his neighbor\u2019s hot car, waits till nightfall, and goes out to slash the tires and scratch the paint. He is entirely negative. The Party of Trump is now like that. They don\u2019t care how much damage he does to the country or even to themselves. As long as it angers their culture war enemies, it\u2019s all that matters. They are the peasant in the Russian joke who, promised by an angel that he could have anything as long as he understood his enemy would get twice as much, replies \u201cGouge out one of my eyes and beat me half to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

God defend us from evil men in positions of great power, through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"