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Several decades ago, I became casually acquainted with an elderly — and wealthy — gentleman who was a sucker for Republican appeals to his vanity. (Undoubtedly, there are Democratic examples of the exact same thing, but this guy, who is now deceased, was a Republican.)
He actually believed the come-ons he received from GOP fundraisers who made him feel that his money would buy him insider status in the party’s highest councils. Accordingly, he readily coughed up more and more coin of the realm to gain admission to supposedly special groups of so-called party insiders. This status got him invited ...
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