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We're reading today from a Republican strategist Rick Wilson's new book, Everything Trump Touches, Dies.

Chapter 1, Vichy Republicans.

Some say Donald Trump is the price this nation is paying for too many years of partisan bickering and division.

Some say America's forgotten working men rose up in a single, incoate scream of rage

at a system that for too long provided them with nothing but empty promises,

bad trade deals, and government subsidized carbs.

Some claim it's from a generation weaned on talk radio, Fox News,

and the comments sections of a million Tea Party websites.

Some say it's a sign of a merciless God testing us to the breaking point.

I still think that it's because we didn't let that old gypsy woman vote when she produced a

photo ID back in 2012. All those reasons fall short of the mark, though, don't they? By now it should

be clear that Trump's election was a sign of the coming apocalypse,

soon to be followed by a reign of blood, seven years of darkness and a plague of frogs.

That may be exaggerating slightly, but we do have a flag of pepies,

the cartoon frog meme that is a favorite symbol of Trump's alt-Rich fan base.

And there's an odds-on chance that our grandchildren will hear

this tale while hunched over guttering fires in the ruins of a radioactive Mad Max-style hellscape.

The Trumpian heroic narrative is simple. Powerful alpha male warrior descends golden escalator.

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