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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4605746" data-attributes="member: 54375">The following is excerpted from “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Useful-Idiot-Donald-Republican-Coronavirus-ebook/dp/B08G8MV4RP/ref=sr_1_1?amp=&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=the+useful+idiot+s.v.+date&amp;qid=1598668671&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=thehuffingtop-20" target="_blank">The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus</a>,” by S.V. Dáte.A pandemic never occurred to them. The idea that Donald Trump would ever be required to sit still, pay attention and make rational decisions that would determine whether hundreds of thousands of Americans would live or die not once crossed the minds of those who put him into the Oval Office.Oh, they all had their various reasons for wanting him there. For white evangelical Christians, he had explicitly promised to appoint the federal judges they had so longed for to turn back the nation’s cultural clock. For Mitch McConnell, a Trump win — as unlikely as it seemed — was the only real path to making sure Republicans retained control of the Senate and he himself remained majority leader. And for Vladimir Putin, having Trump in the White House — as unlikely as it seemed — would be a dream come true, an opportunity to wreak havoc on his longtime adversary and weaken its historic alliance with Western Europe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4605746, member: 54375"] [I]The following is excerpted from “[URL='https://www.amazon.com/Useful-Idiot-Donald-Republican-Coronavirus-ebook/dp/B08G8MV4RP/ref=sr_1_1?amp=&dchild=1&keywords=the+useful+idiot+s.v.+date&qid=1598668671&sr=8-1&tag=thehuffingtop-20']The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus[/URL],” by S.V. Dáte.[/I] A pandemic never occurred to them. The idea that Donald Trump would ever be required to sit still, pay attention and make rational decisions that would determine whether hundreds of thousands of Americans would live or die not once crossed the minds of those who put him into the Oval Office. Oh, they all had their various reasons for wanting him there. For white evangelical Christians, he had explicitly promised to appoint the federal judges they had so longed for to turn back the nation’s cultural clock. For Mitch McConnell, a Trump win — as unlikely as it seemed — was the only real path to making sure Republicans retained control of the Senate and he himself remained majority leader. And for Vladimir Putin, having Trump in the White House — as unlikely as it seemed — would be a dream come true, an opportunity to wreak havoc on his longtime adversary and weaken its historic alliance with Western Europe. [/QUOTE]

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