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Excellent. I have used the phrase 'The Gorbachev Effect' for many years. When a revolutionary comes in, then loses control of the growing wave, and suddenly isn't revolutionary enough and is overtaken and left behind by the momentum of the movement he created. I suggest Ron Paul 2007, mixed with Karl Rove, were possibly the Gorbachev's (which would make Trump the....). The TEA Party was the wildest right-wing thing ever seen 2007-2015. Now? All classed as 'RINOs.' People who were John Stewart and Michael Moore pariahs ten years ago, are now vilified as 'not right enough' (W Bush). Black shirts will purge brown shirts, every time....

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