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"How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented -- reeducated -- before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries?"

"He's had to distance himself from the worst of his followers. But he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?"

"Once he's made everyone who isn't like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn't cause. That's easier than trying to fix the problems."

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