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Martin Schram

Martin Schram: Patriotic heroes — born again

The Year of America’s Rebirth began late on election night 2022, when it became clear that the worst failed to happen.

Despite what the polls, the pols and the pundits had been telling us to expect: A red wave that would roll across our land and capture control of America democratically. Or destroy America’s democracy in a wave of hate, anger and vengeance.

Neither happened. Because there were millions of real heroes — commonsense patriots who were Republicans and Republican-leaning independents — who’d had enough of Donald Trump’s Big Lie madness. Finally, on this election night (perhaps after taking a hard look at the face in the bathroom mirror), they did what they knew all along they needed to do to really make America great again. They just said “No! No More!” No more of the election denial nincompoopery, in which smart people who of course knew better kept confusing loyalty to Republicanism with pretending to deny the legality and reality of the 2020 election results.

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