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On U2’s Rattle and Hum live album, just before the band plays “Helter Skelter,” Bono says something memorable: “This is a song Charles Manson stole from the Beatles. We’re stealing it back.”
Maybe someday we can say the same thing about Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
I may be one of the few people who is holding out hope for repossession. Over the last 20 years, I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words about controversial hot-button subjects, ranging from immigration to abortion. However, none of those columns have aroused as much incredulity as my recent one about why I still consider myself a conservative Republican.