Any Moral Equivalence About 9/11 Is Pure Evil

Any Moral Equivalence About 9/11 Is Pure Evil

Stephen Kruiser  

AP Photo/Richard Drew, File

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Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Yrdhebriskd was quick to embrace his role as the determined face of the Southwestern Pressed Beets Mocktails scene. 

This is going to be quick. I won't be sharing my memories of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 because they matter only to me and don't have any relevance to the point I want to make today. I am fortunate to have a couple of good friends who also happen to be colleagues — Stephen Green and Kurt Schlichter — and they've both written 9/11 columns that are quoteworthy, so I'll lean on them a little. Full disclosure: I will be doing that because I'm in the mood to rain down some choice expletives today, and this isn't the space for that. 

We talk here a lot about there being clearly delineated good guys and bad guys in the world, and that leftists are in a permanent state of confusion about which global actors fit into which category. Here on the right, we are a lot more clear-headed regarding existential threats to the Republic. This is from Schlichter's column:

Court was canceled. I came back to Manhattan Beach. Nobody went to work. We watched the news the rest of the day, and speculation turned to who the culprits were. It was pretty clear early on that it was Muslim fanatics. It was also pretty clear that we had to kill them all. We had some moral clarity then, while the wreckage was still smoking. It was George W. Bush’s finest hour. He got Congress to authorize — 420-1 in the House, 98-0 in the Senate, the lone “no” from one socialist dirtbag congresswoman — our campaign of righteous retribution, which continues to this day and must continue until every person who had a paw in this, and those still carrying the jihadi banner, have paid for what they did.

The "we" who had moral clarity in 2001 actually included Democrats. Because the attacks happened in places where a lot of them lived and worked, the Dems were hit with a wave of old-fashioned patriotism the likes of which they hadn't experienced since the summer of 1945. "We" rode a pretty nice wave of Kumbaya-filled unity for a brief while after 9/11. It was nice while it lasted.

Unfortunately, it didn't last very long. 

Democrats and their various leftist comrades in idiocy have spent much of the last quarter century being apologists for an ideology whose adherents have been, as I wrote on Tuesday, "quite open about wanting to murder anyone who disagrees with them." Here is Mr. Green's excellent description of the jihadi quintessence:

They couldn't build, but they sure knew how to destroy. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda had a 7th Century theocratic mindset with a postmodern sadist's ability to imagine all-new ways to murder, using a superior civilization's own tools against it.

Yeah, they say it's about religion, but it's the boilerplate envy-based belief system that drives most of modern history's heinous figures. Leftists everywhere can empathize and sympathize with jihadis so easily because they're all coming from the same psychologically damaged pool of motivational dreck. When mommy and daddy issues take a horrible turn, they find it easy to rationalize violence in pursuit of their political goals. The same campus rage mongers who chant "Free Palestine" have been celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk for a year.

As with most of what's horribly wrong with the American left these days, His High Holiness the Lightbringer Barack Obama deserves much of the blame. Inspired by David Mamet's legendary "Always be closing" line in Glengarry Glen Ross, I like to tell people to "always blame Obama." It was during the Obama years that the phrase "the motive is unclear" became code for "Yeah, the killer yelled 'Allahu Akbar!' just before people started dying." 

Of course, rushing to judgment about anyone who points out the obvious is OK. We're always labeled "Islamophobic" whenever we mention that the Islamic guy who murdered people was, in fact, Islamic. 

People who find moral equivalence between the bottom-feeding jihadi dirtbags and the murder victims of their perverted path to their twisted version of the afterlife are evil. Those who do so in any context involving the 9/11 attacks are also traitorous. I won't even get into the situation in New York City's leadership right now because I'll end up punching a wall, and I need my hands to type. Kevin and I discuss it on the latest episode of "Unwoke," though.

I'm glad I'm on the side that remembers the horror of 9/11 and still calls it a horror. The side that's not electing politicians who think we had it coming. The side that doesn't have Palestinian flags displayed in their United States congressional offices. 

The side that honors and mourns the people killed 25 years ago today. 

The side that knows who the bad guys are. 

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The Counterrevolution: Victor Davis Hanson Surveys Trump's Fall and Rise

The Counterrevolution: Victor Davis Hanson Surveys Trump's Fall and Rise

Jennifer Rust 

Basic Books (a division of Hachette Books)

President Donald J. Trump is unique in American history. Never has a candidate or president suffered so many attacks — legally, politically, and physically — yet still kept rising and carrying on his fight.

To tell the story of what Victor Davis Hanson calls the “Trump Decade” (2015-2025) requires someone versed in the rise and fall of empires. It’s fortunate that Hanson is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, in addition to a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

Hanson’s newest book, The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement, which will be released on September 8, takes readers from the depths of MAGA despair after the 2020 election, through the wilderness years of the Biden presidency, to the resurgent campaign of 2024, and finally, to the fast-paced, counterrevolutionary second term we’re still living through today. The book ends in January 2026, but an afterword covers events through April 2026.

His erudition is evident, from chapter titles to quotes by Edmund Burke to classical allusions. He describes the Democrats as “The New Jacobin Democrats,” comparing their 21st-century excesses to the radicals of 18th-century France. Who else but a trained classicist could describe Donald Trump after a key figure in Greek literary satire?

The media never really minded all that much when prior Republican presidents called out their liberal bias. They usually either laughed off the mostly impotent charges or considered them welcome proof of their left-wing bona fides, given that the accusations were politely lodged and largely true. Yet Trump was a different sort, an uncensored, loud-mouthed populist out of an Aristophanic comedy. He answered their unprecedented effort to destroy him politically and personally with commensurate or even greater invective.

Each of the nine chapters is so dense with information that each one could serve as a college seminar. A history book club could meet for half a year, examining one chapter a week. I finally had to stop taking notes when I’d dog-eared every other page of chapter three.

Hanson does not emote; nor does he lavishly praise Trump the way an enthusiastic rally-goer would. He is as close to an objective observer as you can find in the world of commentary.

Part One covers the fall of Trump, from the 2020 election to the exhaustive lawfare. It will prove difficult for any Trump fan to relive the days covered in those four chapters: January 6 and the Pelosi commission afterward, as well as the endless lawfare. It wasn’t just the Democrats who were anti-Trump, but at least seven other entities: the media, the administrative state, the Washington political and military hierarchies, the Never Trump Republicans, popular culture, academia, and even other countries that formed what Hanson calls the “Armies of Anti-Trumpers.”

VDH takes us on a quick journey through all the stages of the four-year period of Joe Biden’s presidency, from the quick undoing of Trump executive orders to the failures of “Bidenomics” to the regrettable decision to hurriedly leave Afghanistan.

Consider what was thrown at private citizen and former president Donald Trump in that interim: five criminal and civil suits; a made-for-TV FBI raid on his home, Mar-a-Lago; the efforts in multiple states to remove Trump from the ballot; and, of course, two assassination attempts, one resulting in a death and two injuries, along with an injured Trump.

Part Two, “The Rise,” begins with a quote from Friedrich Nietzsche: “What does not kill me makes me stronger.” Hanson describes Trump as a Nietzschean man, one who survived everything thrown at him. The Aug. 8, 2022, Mar-a-Lago raid might have destroyed him. Yet almost immediately afterward, he moved up in the polls ahead of his primary opponents.

It’s fascinating to go back and look at the 2024 primary. On November 15, 2022, Trump formally announced his candidacy. On November 18, three things happened on the same day. Former Acting Associate Attorney General Matthew Colangelo resigned. He turned up working (at a pay cut) on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s team prosecuting Trump. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel “to investigate Biden’s 2024 opponent.” Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade met with Biden White House counsel staff. Hanson drily recites these facts, leaving the reader to speculate on what, if any, coordination was happening at higher levels.

The rest of Part Two narrates the amazing change between Trump 1, 2017-2021, and Trump 2. In this current second term, Hanson believes that Trump truly is launching a counterrevolution to bring back what Trump views as common sense: “reciprocal fair trade, closed borders, legal-only immigration, progress in curbing or at least no increasing deficits and debt, and a fierce effort to end the recent DEI orthodoxy and the anti-prosperity boondoggles of the Green New Deal.”

Chapter 7, “The Road to a New Old America,” relives the glorious rush of the first 100 days of Trump’s second term. The administration used the tactic of “flooding the zone” to keep its opponents off-key and unable to focus on an attack. The next chapter covers foreign policy and how Trump is aiming at what Hanson describes as “Jacksonian deterrence.”

In the last chapter, Hanson looks at what it will take to keep the MAGA movement alive without Trump. He believes it can be done, thanks to the base Trump has built up, the way Trump’s legacy will “haunt and obsess” Dems, and the way the president has adopted “now-abandoned Democratic issues” such as reciprocal tariffs and tax cuts for the middle class. He warns Democrats that unless they can find a charismatic leader like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama — AND tack to the center — they “are likely to lose any election that pits them against a workman-like MAGA Republican candidate.”

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It's Going to Be a Big Week for IslamoFAUXbia

It's Going to Be a Big Week for IslamoFAUXbia

Stephen Kruiser  

Anna Connors/The New York Times via AP, Pool

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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Due to popular demand, the Margarita Fountain will now be available during the weekend breakfast buffets. 

As longtime readers know, holidays and the days after holidays are lighter and quicker here. The Briefing never takes them off, but I opt for a more pithy approach. I also like saying and writing "pithy." If I ever go back to therapy, I'll bring that up. 

With the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks looming at the end of the week, emotions will be running very high. For conservatives, there is an added heaviness, as the day before will mark the first anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. That's a lot to process, but we're focusing on 9/11 today.

The number of Americans who are dishonoring those killed by Islamic terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001 is tragic and abominable. This is from a VIP post Catherine wrote over the weekend:

My colleague Robert Spencer, an expert in Islamic history and modern jihad movements, says that there have been 49,000 Islamic jihad attacks since the 9/11 attacks in 2001. And yet only 25 years after those attacks, with nearly 50,000 terrorist incidents attributable to Islam in the time period, New York has a Muslim mayor and Americans in all 50 states claim to support Palestinian terrorists. We even have U.S. administrations funding jihadi regimes and removing terror designations from Syrian mass murderers. It’s insane. 

Insane and heartbreaking. 

There was a brief time of unity back in 2001 that has been followed up by a quarter-century of American leftists being apologists for Islam. They're either rabid supporters of jihadi murderers or dealing with a case of mass denial the likes of which has never been seen in history. The leftists' responses to Islamic terror attacks have become routine sick jokes. We're constantly told that motives are "unclear" when "Allahu Akbar!" was the last thing people heard before they were killed. If you're sane and mention that there just might be a pattern, they all start barking "Timothy McVeigh" like trained seals.

I frequently write about the fact that American leftists live in an alternate, fictional reality. One of the biggest fictions that they peddle is that Islamic terrorism isn't a problem, but the white Christians are a powder keg that's ready to blow. It's wearisome and dangerous. When Democrats are in charge, they're never looking for the real bad guys.

In another VIP post from last weekend, Robert wrote about what we can expect from the lunatic left this week:

Friday, September 11 will be the 25th anniversary of the jihad attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania, and the far left’s propaganda arm, the establishment media, is already hard at work repeating the lesson that leftists want us to take away from this grim milestone: It was all our fault. And now, “Islamophobia” is worse than ever, underscoring the left’s second big takeaway from 9/11: Muslims were the real victims.

Once more, with feeling: Islamophobia isn't real. A phobia is an irrational fear. There is nothing irrational about fearing people who have not only been quite open about wanting to murder anyone who disagrees with them, but have a very, very long track record of doing just that. Making matters even more fraught with danger is the fact that they think that God is telling them to do all of the murdering. 

It's a healthy fear, by any objective measure. When necessary, I'm going to be using "Islamofauxbia" as my way of indicating that Islamophobia is a pile of horse manure. 

This country is now polluted with people in positions of political power who support terrorism. The antisemitic "Free Palestine" psychopaths have the support of many Democrats in Congress. Anti-Israel Hamas propaganda is routinely spouted by Democratic Socialists of America Rashida Tlaib types. 

Again, there's plenty to be worried about there. The lefties don't get to repeat "Islamophobia" ad nauseam in an attempt to shut us up. Not this week. Not ever. 

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Climate 'Scientists' Move the Goalposts Again

Climate 'Scientists' Move the Goalposts Again

by Amy CurtisFollow @RantyAmyCurtis

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When I was in grade school, I remember my teachers warning us about acid rain, global warming, and the hole in the ozone layer. They told me the state of Florida would be underwater, as would coastal cities. The polar ice caps were going to melt and we would all starve. The planet was dying every few years.

Now I'm 43, I'm going to guess most of my elementary school teachers are either retired or dead, and Florida is not underwater. The planet has not died, and every single prediction from the so-called climate crowd has failed to come true. Rather than admitting what we all know — that it's all ideological — the climate scientists simply said the communist climate change "solutions" worked.

In some ways, I admire the absolute audacity of these people. They got everything wrong, tried to force "green" policies down our throats to lower our standard of living and push communism, and then took credit for the fact none of their doom-and-gloom predictions came true.

Here's more from Shellenberger:

Climate policies saved the world from catastrophic warming, say leading climate scientists. On September 1, a consortium that produces analyses for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released new scenarios. They say the new worst-case scenario is just 3.3 degrees Celsius of warming by 2100 over pre-industrial temperatures. That’s down from 4.6 to 4.9 degrees of the last three generations of climate scenarios used by the IPCC. “Our business-as-usual projection of 3C of warming – rather than 4 or 5C – is a testament to the progress in global decarbonization over the last few decades,” wrote climate scientists Zeke Hausfather, Glen Peters, and Piers Forster back in May.

Others agreed. Chris Smith, a modeler at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis who helped build the new scenarios, told Carbon Brief that “back in 2010, RCP8.5 wasn’t an implausible future, we’ve now made it an implausible future.” Gavin Schmidt, the longtime director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, argued that scenarios shifted “in light of what we (as a society) are doing,” so that “we have already done things and so ‘business’ is no longer ‘usual.’” Robert Vautard, cochair of the IPCC working group on physical science, said the old high scenarios “assumed no climate policies,” while “there ARE now many climate policies in many countries, developed in particular with the Paris Agreement signed in 2016.”

Remember, Rush Limbaugh warned decades ago that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, communists would rebrand themselves under the environmentalist movement. That's why there's no daylight between green policy and Karl Marx. They proved him right, and now they're trying to say they managed to control the climate by forcing these policies down our throats.

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When the old hysterical, pearl-clutching scenarios — treated for years our inevitable future in news headlines, classrooms, and policy memos — became impossible to defend, the same institutions did not say, “Our bad.” They said the policies they demanded had already saved us, like magic. It turns every failed catastrophic prediction into proof that their agenda worked, and it turns every demand for cheaper energy, nuclear power, adaptation, or simple skepticism into a malicious sabotage of a plan that never had to happen.

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Trump Lays Up the Wins, Teases a 'Trump Dividend,' for First-of-Its-Kind RNC Midterm Convention

Trump Lays Up the Wins, Teases a 'Trump Dividend,' for First-of-Its-Kind RNC Midterm Convention

Jennifer Oliver O'ConnellFollow @asthegirlturns

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

President Donald J. Trump, the Commander-in-Chief, was fully in command as he took the stage at the American Airlines Center to cap off the first day of the 2026 Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. Trump was jovial, and looked rested and in great spirits as singer Lee Greenwood introduced him to the signature anthem, "God Bless the USA." At the end of the song, the audience broke into chants of "USA," as Trump and Greenwood greeted each other.

This convention was Trump's brainchild, and the first in history for a national political party. Its aim is to energize voters ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, where the Republican majority for the House and the Senate hangs in the balance.

Trump greeted the crowd with enthusiasm, thanking them. "And friends, distinguished guests, Vice President Vance, and the proud citizens of the United States of America, welcome to the first ever midterm convention of any party!"

Trump talked about how, "it took a little imagination to think of it, but we thought of it. I'm sure it will become a staple in years to come."

It wouldn't be a Trump speech without him pointing out and ribbing the fake news. Trump teased, "You have to remember, when we originally announced this eight weeks ago, they said, 'Who's going to come to a midterm convention?' This place is packed."

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Trump also mentioned the many people - offsite - standing outside watching the convention on a big screen.

Trump then delved into what was at stake.

In 55 days Americans will be going to the polls in one of the most important elections in our country's history. Your vote will decide whether our country stumbles at the starting gate of the next 250 years, or surges forward and never, ever looks back. If we hand America's future to the radical Left Democrats and our nation will spend the next decade just getting back on its feet, it will be a tragedy. Vote Republican and we will leave the world in our dust for generations to come. There will be nothing like it. We're right at that gate.

When the audience again broke out into chants of "USA," Trump thanked them and continued.

The choice in this election is very, very simple: Democrats are asking you to vote for their failed, far-Left agenda, it's never worked. That destroyed your finances and delivered you four years of disaster, bedlam, and death under Sleepy Joe Biden. And I'm asking you to let us finish the job we began with the greatest two years in the history of the presidency.  

This has been the most successful two years, financially and in every way in the history of the presidency. And together we will turn a two-year comeback into a 250-year lead. 

Trump talked about the country's tremendous turnaround economically and on the world stage, then said to the crowd: "I want you to remember when this country is rocketing: I'm the one that got it started!"

Someone in the crowd yelled, "Trump 2028!"

After Trump gave honor to his stalwart supporters who have followed him since 2016, he moved into the midterms, and the conventional wisdom in Washington that the party in power always loses big in the midterms. 

We've got something so good. We can't let that string be broken. We're going to change that. There's no reason for it. There's no reason for it. So, I'm asking you to pretend that I'm on the ballot, just one more time. Because if we lose we're going to lose the border, you're going to lose your tax cuts, you're going to lose your safety and security. You're going to lose your wealth. Our country is going through hell, you will be going through hell just like you did just two years ago, we went through hell. We were a laughingstock all over the world.

Trump made a call for a united front and a determination to not see that happen again.

In this election, all that matters is that we are united, we are together, and what we say, counts. That's all that matters. And on November 3, the great American majority is going to stand up and continue to Make America Great Again. The midterms are not supposed to be won by the sitting president, and we're going to change that.

Trump committed to campaign for 35 House of Representatives and Senate races, and said that he would visit some states more than once. 

We really have 35 races that are, I guess you'd call, "the swings." Like we had seven swing states, and we won all seven. We're campaigning to make it incredible. 

Trump said some of the campaign stops would be rallies in big arenas, and planned to tout the Republican policies that are common sense. 

"It's really about common sense more than anything else," Trump said. 

Trump turned his focus to TX Attorney General and nominee for U.S. Senate, Ken Paxton. Trump claimed that he would come to Texas as many times as he could in order to see Paxton elected to the Senate seat.

I'm going to go to every one of them, about 35, in a couple of cases I'll go twice, and I'll do tele-town halls, and I'll come back to Texas because we have to elect Ken Paxton. 

The audience cheered uproariously. Trump declared, "He's the greatest attorney general in America and he deserves to be your next senator!"

But the meat of the speech, and what the president chose to emphasize, were his great successes achieved during the first two years of his second term. Namely, border numbers, crime numbers, and the common sense policies which have helped the American people to prosper.

Together, we're going to continue to have, we have the strongest borders. We have to continue low taxes, I gave you the biggest tax decrease in the history of our country, and no crime.

We will have energy dominance, we will stand with our heroes in the military. We take care of our veterans, our great police and law enforcement: we love our police and law enforcement.

The president gave props to Texas' sitting GOP senators - Ted Cruz and John Cornyn - for helping to get the wall built, then presented the stunning numbers: "Zero illegal aliens have entered our Southern border in the last 15 months. ZERO."

The crowd cheered and went into another round of "USA" chants.

Trump declared, "We're also out here to have a little bit of fun!" And went on a riff of how he came up with, "Dumocrats, because their policies are so bad."

Men playing in women's sports is one of those bad policies on which the Democrats appear to be doubling down. Trump said, "They say it's an 80/20 issue, I say it's a 99 to 1, and I have no idea who the one is."

Trump laid out the contrast of open borders, highlighting that under his administration, "we have the lowest level of illegal immigration ever recorded in our country. ZERO illegal immigrants have entered your border."

Trump even declared on the Iran conflict that: 

We're winning it. We control the Hormuz Strait. I think we should call it "The Trump Strait," I should get something out of this! We should call it The Trump Strait and I'm sure the Iranian leadership will be thrilled with it. They've been the bully of the Middle East for 50 years, now they can't bully anyone anymore.

On the economy, Trump said: "Right now, in the United States of America we have more people working than we ever have before, by A LOT."

Trump then gave a shoutout to House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04), who Trump said would go down as the greatest Speaker of the House. When Trump moved to pay respect to Sen. John Thune (R-SD), the audience booed. Trump tried to calm them a bit, and said Thune is "working hard."

Trump once again mentioned the One Big Beautiful Law with its No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, and No Tax on Social Security, saving American families thousands of dollars, and returning it back to their pockets. Trump talked about the manufacturing renaissance occurring in the country, with car manufacturers bringing production back to the U.S. 

"It's the Golden Age of the Automobile Business," Trump said.

Trump followed with a discussion of the Golden Age of Energy, as he touted the Venezuela deal of 65 billion barrels of oil, the money being pulled in thanks to tariffs, and the tax-free White House ballroom being built. Trump also promoted the Trump Accounts and prescription drug discounts through Trump Rx.

Trump joked about his ability to weave in and out of subjects, but declared that if the weave didn't get back to the main point, he was done. 

The president did weave back to the economy, and made this stunning promise: Should the Republicans regain the Senate and the House of Representatives, he would give every American citizen what he called the "Trump Dividend."

What we're doing, because we're doing so well, and because our country is making so much money. Here is my promise: If the Republicans win the Senate and the House of Representatives, both of them. Because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every citizen of the United States of America for 5,000 dollars. Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders. Or last year when I gave our great military $1776 dollars. 

This is guaranteed to make Democrats head explode. Trump proclaimed that the Democrats would not be able to do it because, "all they know is poverty and how to ruin the country."

Trump detailed the sins of the former NC Gov. Roy Cooper, who is the Democrat vying for retiring Republican Thom Tillis' Senate seat. From the lax laws which allowed the killer of Iryna Zarutska to be released multiple times, to his horrific handling of Hurricane Helene, Cooper would like North Carolinians to forget, but Trump proclaimed this record must not be forgotten. Trump gave a shoutout to Republican candidate for NC Senate Michael Whatley, and encouraged North Carolinians to vote for him in November.  

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) were next in Trump's crosshairs. Trump declared that "they're crazy," and have skipped over socialism to go straight to communism. Trump called out TX Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico, MI Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, FL Senate candidate Angie Nixon, and other DSA and DSA-adjacent candidates running, highlighting the damage they wanted to enact on the country, and their stated hatred for America.

Trump's most pointed proclamation said it all:

Our party is really based on a thing called common sense, it's all common sense[...] On election night, we're going to prove that America doesn't belong to those who hate it. America belongs to those who love it. 

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