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As usual, we need to keep Occam's razor sharply honed and to hand. Of course, it's always possible that Gaetz and MTG are playing some deep game to stop Trump. However, in this case, I think they are genuinely and rightly enraged that Johnson has caved so easily. Sure, there were no great candidates for SoH, but they expected at least some kind of backbone from a "devout Christian". Same applies for Trump. Sundance and the Q boys are busy spinning the "64D chess!" line, but it looks like he's sold out. I'm currently reading Robert Massie's wonderful "Nicholas and Alexandra" and am constantly struck by the similarities between the twilight of Tsarist Russian and our dying Western world: a leadership vacuum at the top; corrupt, incompetent politicians jostling for power as the ship goes down; massive debt and dislocation; war, war, war; and wild partying and perversion. The Russian revolution started from obscure, left-field sources and I wonder if our revolution will follow the same pattern: while all attention is focused on the doings of DC, some kind of grass roots movement will spring up from an area that no-one suspected. Something has to give.

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