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In the ongoing metamorphoses of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism into a social movement that manages to get almost everything wrong, here is one of its Shapers of \u201cThought\u201d\u00a0hoping against hope that America would just grab the One Ring, and transform itself into a mass-murdering Communist despotism (and the one with more blood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104,49],"class_list":["post-54636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commies","tag-the-thing-that-used-to-be-conservatism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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