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A Letter to the Next Republican President

If you have the courage to rise to this occasion, three possible rewards await you.

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Ben Cohen
Oct 13, 2020
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by Rich Herschlag

Right now in the aftermath of your party’s desecration and implosion it’s hard to imagine there will ever again be a Republican president and even harder to believe you will be that president. But a lot can happen in eight or twelve or sixteen years, so it’s important to begin preparing as soon as possible. With the previous president playing golf in Brazil while more revelations of corruption, tax evasion, paranoia, and sheer incompetence emerge every day, you already have a nearly perfect model of what not to be on the day you take the oath of office. Our purpose here is to compel you to look ahead.

As you know, every year without fail about three million older Americans with largely antiquated ideas about race, gender, and fairness die and are replaced by about three million 18-year-olds who tend to look at the country and the world as a giant pool of equals. This, of course, was recognized many years ago by your frightened, discredited peers and inspired a couple d…

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