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"The 1776 Report" Offers The Trump Administration's Final Insult to History

1/19/2021

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On this, the last full day of the Trump Administration, it’s worth spending a moment considering the final insult to history that Donald Trump’s stooges lobbed on their way out the door. Trump’s 1776 Commission released a partisan report on American history that actual historians, journalists, and pundits have rightly excoriated for its propagandistic conservative tone, its excuses for slavery, and its relentless claims that liberalism is anti-American. (James Grossman of the American Historical Association called it a “hack job” designed to foment division, which is going some for a guy who praised the History channel, home to Ancient Aliens, as vital for “stimulating and nourishing” interest in history.) I’m not interested in going through those well-covered problems, but I do want to point out a couple of the less noticed parts of the report, highlighting its mendacity.
Let’s begin by looking at how Trump’s team falsifies historical evidence. Here is a representative passage from a section on the evils of progressives:
They rejected the self-evident truth of the Declaration that all men are created equal and are endowed equally, either by nature or by God, with unchanging rights. As one prominent Progressive historian wrote in 1922, “To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.” Instead, Progressives believed there were only group rights that are constantly redefined and change with the times.
The “prominent Progressive historian” was Carl Becker, writing in his 1922 study of the Declaration of Independence. He. Was not arguing against the Declaration of Independence as the Trump team implies, but rather he claimed that the eighteenth-century concept of natural rights deriving from a study of the natural world was a literary conceit of its time, born of incomplete knowledge. He argued that the first principles of moral arguments, whether they be God, Reason, Nature, etc., were justifications not postulates, that the arguments were attempts to justify social, emotional, or political decisions in terms of a “higher law,” one that was a form of faith, not objective truth.
 
Twentieth-century people, he reasoned, cannot be arguing from eighteenth century ignorance. The question wasn’t whether natural rights could objectively be said to derive from the natural world but whether the moral argument served its political and social ends by appealing to an imaginary “higher law” that could justify a new social contract. “The natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence was one formulation of this idea of a higher law,” he wrote. Natural rights philosophy, while incomplete and not scientifically sound, “furnished at once a justification and a profound emotional inspiration for the revolutionary movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.” He went on to praise the Declaration and its philosophy for
…  a humane and engaging faith. At its best it preached toleration in place of persecution, goodwill in place of hate, peace in place of war. It taught that beneath all local and temporary diversity, beneath the superficial traits and talents that distinguish men and nations, all men are equal in the possession of a common humanity; and to the end that concord might prevail on the earth instead of strife, it invited men to promote in themselves the humanity which bound them to their fellows, and to shape their conduct and their institutions in harmony with it.
Becker finished his book by lamenting that nineteenth century philosophers had stopped speaking of humanity in general terms and instead rhapsodized over nations and factions, promoting division instead of universalism. The “harshness” of the industrial age had damaged the humanism of the natural rights philosophies.
 
Trumpists don’t like complexity, so this instead becomes a cartoon of liberals hating America.
 
And since I just spent six months writing about the second Red Scare, I might as well point out how the Trump team used the report to justify McCarthyism:
Led by the Soviet Union, Communism even threatened, or aspired to threaten, our liberties here at home. What it could not achieve through force of arms, it attempted through subversion. Communism did not succeed in fomenting revolution in America. But Communism’s relentless anti-American, anti-Western, and atheistic propaganda did inspire thousands, and perhaps millions, to reject and despise the principles of our founding and our government. While America and its allies eventually won the Cold War, this legacy of anti-Americanism is by no means entirely a memory but still pervades much of academia and the intellectual and cultural spheres.
“Subversion.” While there was Soviet spying in the United States and some efforts to manipulate social groups for political gain, the efforts were never as all-pervasive and widespread as McCarthyites pretended. “Subversion” is a word almost wholly associated with that dark period, the province of McCarthy in the Senate and HUAC in the House and Hoover in the FBI. It’s a loaded term that, used here, is obviously attempting to rehabilitate and justify the McCarthy/HUAC persecution of socialists, leftists, homosexuals, and other non-conforming individuals who were labeled “un-American.”
 
“Americans yearn for timeless stories and noble heroes that inspire them to be good, brave, diligent, daring, generous, honest, and compassionate,” the Trump authors write, seemingly confusing propaganda and mythology with history. “We still read the tales of Hawthorne and Melville, Twain and Poe, and the poems of Whitman and Dickinson.” Well, now, I don’t think the writers of this report read any of them. I think we all know now that Walt Whitman wrote homoerotic poems and was forced to live in the closet because of persecution. Mark Twain was a dedicated liberal who wrote devastating criticism of the American government, its imperialist adventures, and its failure to treat racial and ethnic minorities as fully human. Hawthorne’s works are a long argument against the intolerance and hypocrisy of America’s conservative Puritan strain. No one could possibly read Poe and come away feeling inspired—unless you’re Ed Gein. I chuckled, too, when the writers spoke of how Americans “revere the rugged liberty of the cowboys in old westerns.” Have Trump’s people read Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902), the first major (non-dime) Western novel, the one that inspired the whole genre? They might not have noticed, but it’s not so secretly a gay romance. The male narrator is very much in love with the title cowboy.
 
That’s always the trouble with conservatives trying to hijack the arts for political purposes. They’re full of all that “anti-Americanism” that conservative politics rail against.
32 Comments
Injun joe
1/19/2021 02:44:02 pm

The right wing holds Twain up as an icon even though he was liberal while there is an active leftwing effort to ban or censor his works. American politics at their finest.

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David Evans
1/20/2021 04:57:16 am

The only effort to ban Twain that I know of is centred on the use of the N-word in Huckleberry Finn. I don't approve of that effort, but then I'm a fairly privileged white male. I understand that Black people in the US may feel differently.

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Doc Rock
1/20/2021 10:20:56 am

Mr Evans

I believe that both Adventures of Huck Finn and Adventures of Tom Sawyer have been targeted. I'm not a big reader of Twain, but given his writing style and subject matte I would assume that there are other books or short stories by him that might attract similar ire. At least in the future. At a time when I have fellow liberals condoning the use of violence to "deplatform" "Nazis" such as Ben Shapiro nothing would surprise me.

Interesting to note that Twain's writings were subject to censorship during his lifetime. However, it seems that they were undertaken by people who would be considered Conservative and for reasons other than political correctness.

A C
1/19/2021 06:27:59 pm

American Republican party supporting Youtube comments tend to point to ranting alchoholic KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's pamphlets and lectures to prove their theories, but oddly if you actually read said pamphlets despite their rants against rock music, SOCIAL JUSTICE (he loves allcaps) and minority rights, he has to qualify actual KGB involvement in such things with:

"The sugar-sweet messages of social equality from the crooning mouths of the entertainers is quite enough to accomplish the aims of the KGB without any overt activity on their part."

"-my KGB supervisor who coached me in a fatherly tone: "Don't bother with these protitutes, the Indian Communists... There is nothing more dangerous than disillusioned "true believers" in Communism... aim higher, at respectable "conservative" well established "capitalists" and pro-American elements!"

"If the church has to SOLICIT your money and remind you over and over again in every TV show to contribute (with telephone numbers to pledge donations) that only means there is something basically wrong with your faith. Faithful people do not have to be ASKED for money... Politicizing religion is the most efficient way of demoralizing a target nation..."

-Yuri Bezmenov, Love Letter to America

MSNBC's Russia hysteria went way too far but a greedy silverspoon fed brat of President with a televangalist adjacent Vice-President sounds a lot closer to how the KGB would actually try to corrupt and weaken American society if you actually filter out the American right wing talking points Mr Bezmenov picked up in the decade between defecting and joining the Red Scare circuit.

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Kent
1/19/2021 07:14:54 pm

"If it's not gay it don't play!"

Don't know how you got from E.A. Poe to Ed Gein, but the guy in The Tell Tale Heart got caught.

Poe, like Twain, was not shy about using the N-Word.

There were Communists and Soviet agents in the U.S. gummint and let's face it, there was a Soviet spy living in Roosevelt's White House. McCarthy was right, as were the people who stood up to HUAC. Two different things I know.

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The Rooster
1/19/2021 09:37:12 pm

Hawthorne.

Thanks, Jason. Knowing something about these authors is important, and jarring.

You've provided a valuable post. I'm just going to drop it there, except...?

I know, with Poe? Right? It's great shit to write about Poe's writing, but it's not "inspirational"; it's a quagmire.

It's a whacky shit-hole carpeted in sable.

❤️

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The Rooster
1/23/2021 04:13:53 pm

K? I know it's weird? But I'm kinda obsessed now on "Classic American Authors Death Match".

Especially? Hawthorne vs Hemingway.

That would be a glorious ass-kicking right there.

Hawthorne be'd all like, "SLAM!" Double Suplex!

Poe? Uh uh.

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Clete
1/20/2021 08:57:43 am

Ah, the Donald the Trump "experts". Historians who have no real knowledge of history and Lawyers who have no real understanding of the law, working for someone who has no understanding of the functions of a President in a democratic government.

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Nick Danger
1/20/2021 03:09:07 pm

+1

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T. Franke link
1/21/2021 09:20:05 am

All the Republican presidents are dumb and bad, and all the Democrat presidents are light and bright. How much intelligence is needed to realize that there is something wrong with this narrative, and that a democracy cannot operate on the basis of this narrative?

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Darold knowles
1/21/2021 03:49:15 pm

Regarding Trump’s intelligence:

“His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.”

And:

“If I could put a photo or a picture in front of him or a map or a piece of paper that had two big bullet points on it, he would focus on that, and I could build on that. Just sitting and trying to have a conversation as you and I are having just doesn’t work.”

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/11/rex-tillerson-interview-trump/




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T. Franke link
1/22/2021 05:00:00 am

Darold Knowles, they told similar things about Ronald Reagan and about George W. Bush. And I always wondered: Who are the fools buying this?

Today I know that agreeing on foolish things is a kind of social code. You have proved to be part of the in-group if you are ready and willing to accept foolish things. Like you are accepted in the mafia only if you have proved to be ready to commit a crime. Therefore, the truth-loving person naturally has difficulties to blend in with society. Truth is a lonely business.

Just remembering how George W. Bush was fooled: They told us that he believed god had given him the command to invade Iraq, and similar things. Applying this measure, Trump has not yet risen to the top of fooled persons.

Biden is right that a president should support truth, but what is the truth, especially in politics?! He obviously has not thought enough about the depths of the problem before he spoke. Any need of unfair Biden jokes? For the other in-group?

T. Franke link
1/22/2021 05:41:02 am

Darold Knowles,

PS:

The Rex Tillerson Interview is so funny! First he is deriding Trump for being a fool and having no idea and getting nowhere in foreign policy, and then in the second part, Tillerson advocates exactly the foreign policy made by Trump including "bullying" as a method and the possibility of a military confrontation with China. Sigh!

And they do not touch upon the Abraham accords. Just another clear sign that this interview is rigged. How can you talk about Trump's foreign policy without this? Oh man .... this is so funny! Don't tell me that you cannot laugh about it! It's absolutely ridiculous!

My guess is that Rex Tillerson is afraid of the anti-Trump witch hunt currently going on, and with this mendacious interview he wants to save his hide. So, the not-so-liberal witch hunt is growing to Soviet dimensions now. Truth is in the toilet, everybody runs for bending the knee to the wanted opinion.

Darold knowles
1/22/2021 10:51:42 am


Here’s some more:

“One extract told of a 2018 meeting with then UK Prime Minister Theresa May in which an official referred to Britain as a nuclear power.

“Mr Trump is said to have replied: ‘Oh, are you a nuclear power?’

“The remark, Mr Bolton said, ‘was not intended as a joke.’”

And:

“Before a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Finnish capital Helsinki, he is said to have asked if Finland was ‘kind of a satellite of Russia.’”


www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-53089609

T. Franke link
1/22/2021 01:44:22 pm

Darold Knowles, this has a similar quality than Obama wanting to meet the "president of Canada". And what about the 200 million Covid victims in the US of whom Biden phantasized? And didn't George W. Bush wonder that there are blacks in Brazil?

This quote-picking leads to nothing. Stop the witch hunt. Declare that until now there is no proof that Trump was behind the Capitol Riots. Then you will become credible.

Darold knowles
1/22/2021 02:08:33 pm

Okay then, here’s some more:

“‘Trump has an appalling ignorance of the current world, of history, of previous American engagement, of what former Presidents thought and did,’ Geoffrey Kemp, who worked at the Pentagon during the Ford Administration and at the National Security Council during the Reagan Administration, reflected. ‘He has an almost studious rejection of the type of in-depth knowledge that virtually all of his predecessors eventually gained or had views on.’”

And:

“‘The sheer scale of his lack of knowledge is what has astounded me—and I had low expectations to begin with,’ David Gordon, the director of the State Department’s policy-planning staff under Condoleezza Rice, during the Bush Administration, told me.”

www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-is-donald-trump-still-so-horribly-witless-about-the-world/amp




T. Franke link
1/22/2021 06:21:17 pm

Darold, you miss the point completely.

T. Franke link
1/20/2021 09:23:32 am

I would like to urge all liberals to take the Trump history paper more seriously. Because, have you never imagined what impression modern school books teaching history the liberal way make on conservatives? Just excactly the same impression, only the other way round.

I chuckled on Jason's words "Trumpists don’t like complexity" ..... it's all the same with liberals. While Trump has presented here a glorious version of American history, liberals often present a very dark version.

I would like to urge both sides to heavily think about that both sides could be right in many respects, and flawed too. Only both sides of the coin together make the whole thing.

Single aspects:

The most famous German writer of Western novels was Karl May, publishing around 1880-1900. This is distinctively earlier than Owen Wister in 1902, so I grew suspicious. I doubt that Wister's novel was the first major non-dime novel of this type. This sounds like a liberal myth. Liberals wanted Owen Wister to be the one that inspired the whole genre just because he wrote a gay romance, right? Hey, wasn't there e.g. Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales" much earlier? And so many others? Come on! 1902 ... this it too late! I don't buy this.

McCarthy was fully right in his idea of subversion. After the opening of the archives of the secret service of communist Germany ("Stasi", just a small copy of KGB) we could get a glimpse what they all did in Western Germany. Of course they sponsored leftist and environmental groups, had their agents at all universities, had journalists on their payroll, and created artificial scandals, e.g. by falsifying documents denouncing someone conservative as a former National Socialist, or by desecrating Jewish cemeteries, in order to depict the "capitalist" (better: free) Germany as a fascist Germany. Also the journalist behind the falsified Hitler diaries was a communist agent on the payroll of exactly that unit which created such artificial scandals, though there were never any files found concerning the Hitler diaries as a communist secret service action; but you can bet on it.

To paint the full picture: In today's Germany there is no clear awareness of this. The relationship of today's German society towards the communist era is similar to the relationship of German society towards the National Socialist era in the decades between 1945 and 1968: Everything can be known, it's there, printed and published, but nobody really wants to know it. Main literature: Hubertus Knabe, "Die unterwanderte Republik. Stasi im Westen", 1999. The title translates to: "The infiltrated republic. Stasi in the West."

Concerning the US, the archives of KGB never have been opened. But you are allowed to extrapolate from what became known from the German equivalent of the KGB.

I close with a citation of Mark Twain: "That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse." Trump couldn't have said it better. (But again, this is only half of the truth.)

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Larry storch
1/21/2021 10:52:59 am

Is this the same Hubertus Knabe who actually sued the United States after the revelation that the American NSA has been illegally spying on German citizens without authorization and in violation of German sovereignty?

What’s funny is that your own government declared that the NSA spying could not be proven. In fact, there were American spies serving on the commission that investigated the matter! No wonder a German would come here and rave about how wonderful America is — we flout your national autonomy and treat you as fools and you love us for it.

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T. Franke link
1/21/2021 05:31:25 pm

Larry Storch, yes, this is the same person. A historian who dedicated his life to the research of the former communist Germany's secret service. Sueing the NSA was rather a symbolic act and until now I had not heard about it. Others are more well-known to work against modern secret services.

Everybody knows that there is no equal partnership between Germany and the US, and this is naturally the case, since (a) Germany became a democracy only because of the US, and (b) the US is simply much stronger, and (c) without the US the European countries wouldn't manage to hold together, to stick with democracy and to defend themselves. The only question is: Is it an imperialistic relation, or a hegemonial one? It is a matter of rational realpolitik, not foolishness, to accept US hegemony.

"No wonder a German would come here and rave about how wonderful America is" -- Which imagination has driven your words? Currently, the US is in danger of playing away its democracy by just silencing and humilating 50% of the population. McCarthyism the other way round. Not quite wonderful but bottomless foolishness.

The wonderful thing with the US is the foundation and the history which gives a basis of ideas living in the memories of the citizens to overcome the problem. Therefore liberals try to wipe out these memories and to replace them by a different narrative. But it is difficult to overwrite the truth with a radical liberal narrative. It takes time, and if something goes wrong, and this will always be the case, there is always the memory of a better alternative.

And as I said before, both sides have parts of the truth in their hands, and should take the other side more seriously. I don't know why this view should be foolish. The new US president has called for unity. Foolish?

Larry storch
1/22/2021 12:16:29 am

Well Franke, leaving aside the mostly incomprehensible screed in the latter part of your post, I have to say that I feel sorry for you and Germany as a whole. Americans really cannot fathom the weird idea of being in such a weak position in relation to another country in the way that you described Germany’s submissive posture relative to the US. I can agree with you though that it’s probably for the best given the unfortunate history of Germany.

Nerd11135
1/20/2021 01:26:01 pm

The 1776 report: if Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind" were a post on 4chan, or Parler.

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Nerd11135
1/20/2021 03:50:00 pm

I've been aware for some time of the attempt to rehabilitate Joe McCarthy in Conservative circles -- first saw it decades ago on one of those Sunday morning political shows wherein George Will indicated "McCarthy was probably right." Even back then the Fringe was becoming mainstream in those circles.

I guess if you take anyone's claims to their highest level of abstraction, it's difficult to be wrong about anything. In McCarthy's case if you try to reduce his claims to something like, "we have enemies that do things we think are bad," then yes on some level that's true. No matter who says it and what they mean when they said it, and what their specific words are, if you take them as meaning that? Yes it's true. (Ancient Aliens logic, isn't it. "If you take 'angel' from this ancient text and instead substitute 'celestial energy....'")

But the shifting numbers of Communists at the State Department (with the important implication that they weren't just Communists by political orientation but traitorous to the United States simply by virtue of being so)? That the Democratic party was "treasonous?" That there was "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man?" (Quite the claim when you think about it.) That the United States had somehow "lost" another country to "Communism"" as a result of such a conspiracy? (Think about that for a moment....is any other country really the United States' to "lose" to anything?)

There was of course nothing illegal about being Communist in America, even back then. Nothing illegal about being homosexual in most jurisdictions (some places had sodomy laws but that's not quite the same thing) either but McCarthy went after them people too. "Security risk" and all that. Oddly enough it didn't apply to his right-hand-man, Roy Cohn. (Quick aside: Cohn would later go on to have mobsters, Donald Trump, and the tax evaders who owned Studio 54 as clients.)

It's easy enough to accuse someone you do not like, someone with whom you disagree, or someone who dares to point out that you're factually incorrect about something (evidence and all), of whatever the bad thing at the moment is. Ultimately name-calling is all it is.

But when someone has funding behind him and a microphone in front, name-calling has deadly consequences for those whom you're calling the names.

And, decades later, even after the dust seemingly has settled, someone could just say the name-caller was somehow correct, and the rodeo begins again.

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Kent
1/20/2021 08:49:06 pm

Whittaker Chambers, Alger Hiss, Harry Hopkins, Klaus Fuchs, Shall I continue?

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Cesar
1/20/2021 08:00:27 pm

The 1776 Constitution "preached toleration in place of persecution, goodwill in place of hate, peace in place of war".

And taking off half of Mexico.

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Kent
1/21/2021 03:48:58 am

Not part of the Constitution but nice try Mr. Raza.

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Cesar
1/21/2021 09:55:15 am

It was done under the 1776 constitution. I am not Mexican, not even what you call in a racist way "Latin", "Spanish" or “Mr. Raza”, but I know that slavery and war of conquest are not compatible with democracy. Only after the end of apartheid in 1965.

kent
1/21/2021 03:30:04 pm

What "Constitution" in 1776 Mr. Raza?

Seriously, how stupid are you?

Paul
1/21/2021 09:31:16 am

Ah, first day of the new civility. Back to book burnings.

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Cesar
1/21/2021 06:58:56 pm

"The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was the first constitution of the United States.* It was drafted by the Second Continental Congress from mid-1776 through late 1777, and ratification by all 13 states was completed by early 1781".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States#Articles_of_Confederation.

* Fritz, Christian G. (2008). American Sovereigns: The People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 131.

It is irrelevant since 1776, 1781 and 1788 are years before 1847. We got rid of Americansomething and now this troll is replacing him.

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T. Franke link
1/22/2021 09:43:39 pm

Victor Davis Hanson was member of the 1776 commission. In this podcast he talks about the work in this commission, what they wanted to achieve with it, why Progressivism is bad in his opinion, etc. etc. Quite a nice background supplement to the document itself.

The part about the 1776 commission starts at 22:28 minute:
https://youtu.be/6tiIf0_vLJc?t=1348

Victor Davis Hanson has not been cancelled yet on Youtube, like they did with Rudy Giuliani. In the part before the talk about the 1776 commission, Victor Davis Hanson expresses his opinion that Twitter does Trump a favour by cancelling him.

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T. Franke link
1/25/2021 01:07:25 pm

Politico published an article which -- after the obligatory exaggerated and unfair criticism of all what is "Trumpish" -- reaches the conclusion that the 1776 commission was not so bad an idea, and that the 1776 paper contains some valuable thoughts which could be re-used in a bipartisan approach.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/22/biden-trump-1776-commission-461483

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