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Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a very happy Friday.

This is our second last episode of the year. I guess it's flown by. I hope

everyone has a little bit of an extended holiday weekend. If Christmas is your holiday, I hope you

have a great Christmas on Monday, I guess it is. In the meantime, we have this episode and then one

very special year-ender for next week that I've been working on that I think

you're going to enjoy. Hope you find this one interesting. I think you'll find this one provocative

at a minimum. As always, love to hear your thoughts, questions, or comments. Send them in to

letters at cafe.com. What would you think if a person ran for high public office and promised in advance that if elected, he would use his extraordinary official powers

to go after his political opponents. If you're anything like the vast majority of experts and

observers from both sides of the partisan aisle or from neither side in particular, you'd probably

use terms like openly authoritarian, appalling, dangerous, insane, and legitimately

scary. Now, these are quotes pulled directly from prominent commentators in response to

Donald Trump's overt declaration that if re-elected president, he will use the power of prosecution

to punish his political rivals. Legitimately scary is me,

by the way. I said that on CNN. And we talked about it on this podcast. I stand by all of it.

Now, go back to the proposition that opened today's podcast. But let's change the he to she.

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