Donald Trump’s priorities are public cruelty and private profit, two monsters that feed on each other in one sealed cage until they grow so big they break out. For months, Republican town halls – meetings where the federal policies stomp into local towns – have been overtaken by citizens no longer willing to watch passively as unchecked cruelty and private profit destroy their communities and neighborhoods. In response, Republican legislators have either retreated from the democratic process altogether, or they have used technology to protect themselves from encountering the consequences of the pain they have caused. American government is no longer a Lincolnesque democracy “of the people, by the people, for the people,” but a system of authoritarian control focused on doing to the people,

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