This is truly the darkest, dumbest US timeline

This is truly the darkest, dumbest US timeline
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By Monica HesseBefore we go any further, I need to get one quick piece of information in here, which we can then return to later: A person you have all heard of was apparently embedded with Immigration and Customs Enforcement during the Los Angeles raids that led us to this hellish week, and that person was Dr. Phil.Carrying on.A side effect of researching and writing novels set during the World War II era is that I am always trying to figure out where America is on that timeline. Tacky?What can history teach us? Where were the off-ramps t...

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