Charles Bastille
1 min readDec 17, 2020

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Trump is the metastasizing of the larger disease.

George W. Bush illegally invaded a sovereign country, Iraq, and was responsible for, possibly, a million or so deaths, the rise of ISIS (by disbanding the Iraqi army), and the continuation of perpetual war over oil.

Before then, Reagan and Clinton dismantled welfare and re-dedicated the country towards mass incarceration and a special emphasis on the second part of this sentence from the 13th amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."

The list goes on. I haven't even scratched the surface.

The militarization of America's police, originally set up hundreds of years ago to hunt Black people, accelerated under several presidents long before Trump took office.

There will be a second Trump. The next one will not piss off his intelligence and security services, and will probably be sort of smart, also.

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Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

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