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You didn’t object when you heard Donald Trump
say he likes to grab women “by the pussy.”
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You didn’t object when he kicked the American
media out of the Oval Office and handed two Russian spies classified data
entrusted to him by one of our allies.
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You didn’t object when he likened our
intelligence community to “Nazis.”
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You didn’t object when he stood before the
Memorial Wall of Stars at Langley and told lie after lie about himself and the
election.
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You didn’t object while at the Helsinki Summit,
he met behind closed doors with the Russian President.
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You didn’t object to him banning the American
Press from covering that meeting.
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You didn’t object when he emerged from that
meeting and sided with the Russian President over the findings of our own
intelligence community.
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You didn’t object when the Trump campaign
admitted to accepting Russian offers to help him defeat Secretary of State
Clinton.
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You didn’t object when he stood before the
cameras and said; “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find 30k
e-mails that are missing.”
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You didn’t object when the Russians responded
that VERY DAY with stolen emails.
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You didn’t object when it was confirmed that the
basis for the Trump Tower meeting was a total fabrication. That it had nothing
to do with adopting Russian children, and everything to do with swinging the
election.
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You didn’t object when it was revealed that
Trump himself floated the cover story of adoptions from Russia.
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You didn’t object when it was confirmed that his
campaign staff had met with Russian agents over 150 times, after claiming they
had never met with them at all.
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You didn’t object when the Trump campaign
declined to inform the FBI about the Russian advances.
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You didn’t object when Trump’s campaign manager
gave internal data on four key battleground states to agents working for Putin.
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You sure as hell didn’t object when those very
same four battleground states miraculously shifted towards Trump on Election
Day.
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You didn’t object when Trump kicked his Attorney
General out of the room and asked the FBI Director to let his National Security
Advisor off the hook for lying about his contacts with Russian agents.
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You didn’t object when Trump fired that FBI
Director for declining to let Flynn off the hook.
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You didn’t object when Special Counsel Robert
Mueller said he couldn’t establish a conspiracy, largely because so many of
Trump’s staffers lied during their interviews, and because Trump himself
refused to submit to a live interview.
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You didn’t object when Special Counsel Mueller
cited no fewer than ten instances of the president himself obstructing justice
in his report: an impeachable offense.
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You didn’t object when it was revealed he
cheated on his wife with a porn star.
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You didn’t object when it was revealed that he
paid off that porn star to the tune of $130,000.00 to buy her silence just
prior to the election, an illegal attempt to hide relevant facts from the
electorate.
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You didn’t object when he withdrew the U.S. from
the JCPOA, which was the first and ONLY treaty that’s successfully kept Iranian
nuclear ambitions in check.
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You didn’t object when he pulled us out of the
Paris Climate Accords.
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You didn’t object when he scuttled the Obama
administration’s clean air and water standards.
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You didn’t object when he opened up vast tracts
of protected wilderness to his friends in the oil and mining industries.
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You didn’t object to the myriad cases of
violations of the emoluments clause.
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You didn’t object when he mocked a disabled man
at one of his rallies.
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You didn’t object to the recently-discovered
military stopovers at Trump properties in Scotland.
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You didn’t object when after mass shooting after
mass shooting, he wouldn’t lift a finger to protect even little school children
from gun violence.
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You didn’t object when he started putting
tariffs on everyone from China to Turkey, which have undeniably hurt millions
of people around the world and shaken the stock markets.
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You didn’t object when he gave the corporate
farming industry $26B in compensation for their losses due to his tariffs.
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You didn’t object when he channeled $3.6B in
Pentagon appropriations to his wall on the Mexican border.
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You didn’t object when Trump called out against
“Islamic terrorism” on multiple occasions, but never once for terrorism by
white nationalists.
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You didn’t object when he forcibly separated
little children from their parents.
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You didn’t object when he confined those
children to chain-link paddocks.
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You didn’t object when a whistleblower revealed
the president had on multiple occasions said things that potentially undermined
our nation’s safety and security.
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You didn’t object when his personal lawyer, his
personal consultant, and his army of sycophants at Fox News have repeatedly and
consistently lied about ALL of the above for three excruciatingly long years.
So here’s my question for you: What about any of the above do you believe
entitles you to the right to call yourselves “patriots?” In anything other than
today’s bizarro-world, you wouldn’t even make the rank of American. When this
nightmare ends, we’ll remind you of just how patriotic you were during these
days.
Your karma is gonna sting.
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(Editor’s note: “Dear Republicans” first
appeared on Facebook, shared many, many times. I asked Mr. Lindner permission
to publish his compelling bullet-point essay on this modest site because it perfectly
encapsulates the presidency of Trump, succinctly and with great moral clarity.
A place here ensures that his important message will not simply disappear in
the vast void of social media.)
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“Dear
Republicans,” posted here with permission, is copyright by Bruce Lindner and
may not be reposted elsewhere without his expressed permission.