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MAGA GOP, a Race to the Bottom (American Issues Take One)

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How a Sector of the GOP Defines Deplorable. The host for this show is Tim Apicella. The guest is Cynthia Lee Sinclair.

What could destroy a political career not so long ago? Monkey Business. That was the name of the boat Gennifer Flowers was photographed sitting on the lap of Democratic Candidate Gary Hart. It was enough for followers to turn away as they had expected standards of how a candidate should behave. Fast forward to the beginning of Trump’s bid for president: a Hollywood Access video describing his love of sexually groping women, calling war heroes and gold star families as non-heroes, setting a policy to rip children away from the arms of parents at the boarder, calling WWI veterans ‘suckers and losers’, overtly lying about the deadly nature of COVID19 (but admitting to journalist Bob Woodward the truth), denying his election loss, and willing to bully officials to find 11,780 votes and incite thousands to attack the Capital. So, why hasn’t the MAGA GOP turned away from Trump? What is it about FL Gov. DeSantis’s stunt to dump legal asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard that MAGA GOP admire?

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