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Slack.com slash DHQ. Republicans have suffered a major disaster in Alabama and you know what

that means. That's right. It's time to blame the people we disagree with, make excuses

for the people we agree with, demonize large swaths of the American public and political

class and do everything else we can to keep from learning from our mistakes so that we

don't have to take a hard look at ourselves or change our opinions which would be painful

and annoying. The most important thing to do in a situation like this is protect your

illusions and replace any budding self-awareness with an elaborate fantasy that cattles your

ego and doesn't require any laborious reworking of your personal philosophy or your sense of

self. Some people will tell you now is the time to reassess in order to grow and change

and become better and stronger for the future. I say, what am I a girl? My golly, when a man

makes a mistake, he owns up to the fact that it's somebody else's fault. Mox and belittles

that person relentlessly then moves on to become a wiser and more blindly belligerent

human being. Okay, maybe not wiser, but you get the general idea. The fact is Roy Moore

was a great candidate and an honorable man who obviously would have won if more people

had voted for him. And if he hadn't been a creepy little hypocrite and a terrible candidate.

But in the smoking ruin of our hopes for a brighter tomorrow, I say it's time to proudly

lift our heads and look around for half a dozen unrelated rationalizations for this catastrophe

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