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Fri Oct 3, 2025, 01:57 PM 1 hr ago

Marc Elias: "There are no good republicans"

Marc: ...stop grading Republicans on a curve. There are no Republican heroes in the fight for democracy. Staying grounded in the truth is essential — our democracy depends on it.

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...today I have a really important message to deliver to each and every one of you. We need to stop judging Republicans on a curve. We need to stop trying to find a hero among the wreckage of that political party. We need to stop trying to distinguish between the worst MAGA, the less worst MAGA, and the scared mega. You know, I used to say there are only two kinds of MAGA. There's proud MAGA and scared MAGA. There are probably now more gradations, but there are no heroes in the Republican party. And every time we try to make one, we are doing the bidding of Donald Trump.

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