The next Republican is always supposedly ‘worse’ than the last

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In this world, nothing is certain except that the next Republican presidential hopeful will be “scarier” than the last. 

This is one of the most frequent narratives in modern political messaging. So frequent, in fact, that it has become nearly as predictable as flu season, only drearier and with less charm. 

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