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    Jackie Calmes: Has the GOP once and for all ditched 'morning in America' for 'American carnage'?

    How dark has Republicans' talk of a dystopian America gotten? So dark that even other Republicans are objecting. At one point in last week's testy debate among eight rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Vivek Ramaswamy asserted in apocalyptic echoes of Donald Trump (typical for the self-professed Trump 2.0): "We're in the middle of a national identity crisis. …The problem in ...
    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Aug 30, 2023 3 minutes
    Republican presidential candidates, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence shakes hands with Vivek Ramaswamy during the first debate of the GOP primary season hosted by FOX News at the Fiserv Forum on Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

    How dark has Republicans' talk of a dystopian America gotten?

    So dark that even other Republicans are objecting.

    At one point in last week's testy debate among eight rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Vivek Ramaswamy asserted in apocalyptic echoes of Donald Trump (typical for the ): "We're in the middle of a national identity crisis. …The problem in our country right now — the reason we have that mental health epidemic — is that people are so hungry for purpose and meaning, at a time when family, faith, patriotism, hard work have all disappeared."

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