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I won’t push the disingenuous notion that we all need to accept and empathize with synthetic victim-hoods and bigoted, outrageous rhetoric. However, an understanding must be achieved purely to combat an increasingly reactionary culture.

The choice comes down to what kind of future we want. Kamala Harris represents a path forward with thoughtful, fact-based solutions to the challenges we’re facing—whether it’s keeping inflation in check, creating future-ready jobs, or maintaining America’s leadership on the global stage.

For many years, the Post has been celebrated as a pillar of courage. Now, it might be writing that exact doomsday script in its cowardly decision to break the paper’s long-standing precedent by failing to endorse a presidential candidate.

What it also conjures up is making scapegoats of marginalized people who don’t fit into the category of “regular” American citizens. This “othering” of minority groups is the same ploy that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis used against Jews and other minorities to take over Germany in 1933.

In a moment of bone-chilling honesty, Chris Jones admits thinking, “I can’t believe I was shooting farmers in Afghanistan while these fu**ers are still breathing back home.” For Jones, January 6 was not a wakeup call -- rather, it served as a confirmation of a successful coup d’état of American armed services indoctrinated into a far-right ideology akin to fascism.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is not the only politician who seems to have gone off the deep end, whether they actually fall for such crazy ideas or are just doing so for political gain. Take for instance, New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, the high priestess of abandoning rational thought to serve her lord and master, the former president.

The governor, considered a potential vice-presidential running mate for former President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, described Cricket as “less than worthless” and “untrainable.” Obviously, she did not abide by the old adage that a dog is man’s (or woman’s) best friend.

There will be time for an outbreak postmortem once the U.S. gets past the threat of the coronavirus  --  and the nation will move past it, just as it has countless challenges in the past. The question now is how many Americans will suffer and how many will die unnecessarily. Our goal should be to protect as many fellow citizens as possible, regardless of political affiliation, race, age, gender, etc. Viruses neither care about nor recognize these traits, nor should we when addressing a crisis. Unfortunately, our efforts to safeguard the populace have been seriously undermined by the current social and political climate, rife with division and prejudice, and this climate has been not only fostered, but furthered, by the current administration.