The story of Lindsay Clancy and the alleged murder of her three children is undeniably heartbreaking. While the jury is still out on what her fate will be, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes it’s important to recognize that she was managing her postpartum depression with 13 different medications prescribed by six different doctors.

One of the drugs Clancy was on was an SSRI, which adjusts a person’s level of serotonin.

In an interview Stuckey conducted last year with board certified psychiatrist Josef Witt-Doerring, he argued that “one of the problems with all of these drugs, all of these so-called antidepressants, SSRIs, is that studies show that the premise they are based on is actually unsupported by evidence.”

“There was a major 2022 review in molecular psychiatry that found no solid evidence that people with depression have lower serotonin levels. And this doctor that I had on my show points out that there is still no blood test. There’s no brain scan that can objectively diagnose depression,” Stuckey explains, noting that it’s simply a “symptom checklist.”

“And so, if you are putting someone on something that is affecting their serotonin, which is an important hormone in mood regulation, but that was never the problem in the first place, you’re just giving them the side effects. You’re just giving them the cons and none of the pros from emotional regulation,” she continues.

While many people claim that SSRIs have changed their lives, Stuckey points out that it’s possible that having your “emotional response” blunted and your “spectrum of emotions” shortened could bring you back “from the brink of dark depression.”

“It doesn’t treat their depression. It doesn’t ever get to the underlying cause, but it is possible that an SSRI can have that effect, but it can also have all of these other effects, especially if the root cause is never addressed,” she explains.

And psychiatric medication is increasingly common, with 17% of Americans taking them.

“Millions unknowingly are at risk of drug-induced brain damage while being told that their drugs are safe. According to this doctor, Witt-Doerring, patients who stop psychiatric drugs even gradually can suffer protracted withdrawal that feels like permanent brain damage,” Stuckey says.

“It can cause neurotoxicity. It can also trigger a condition called tardive dysphoria that includes apathy, dissociation, chronic fatigue, agitation. He notes that multiple people have taken their life because the symptoms from this can be so extreme, it can drive people to suicide,” she continues.

Another doctor Stuckey interviewed, Dr. Adam Urato, “warned of the many dangers of being prescribed SSRIs, specifically during pregnancy, but it also applies to that postpartum period.”

Urato, chief of maternal fetal medicine at MetroWest Medical Center, “has called for stronger FDA warnings for SSRIs, especially for pregnant mothers.”

While women are told that SSRIs won’t affect the baby, cause complications, or affect the breast milk, Urato has claimed that is “not accurate.”

“He has highlighted how SSRIs are actually pushed on mothers both before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and after, even though they can alter things like your own brain function, but also fetal brain development,” Stuckey explains.

“And so, all of this plays into the defense’s argument that says that, ‘Look, this was beyond her control. Someone dropped the ball here. It wasn’t her. She was trying to get the help that she wanted,’” she says. “That’s what they’re arguing.”

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He’s only been a woman for five years, but he’s ready to bring his hard-nosed style of play to the WNBA.

Julie Tétart is not just one of the best players in a league in France; the center absolutely dominated the 2025-2026 season in every relevant category.

‘It’s a childhood dream just like for any female basketball player.’

The Monaco player, who stands at 6’2″-6’3″ depending on the source, ran through France’s Ligue 2 opponents last season and has since revealed the WNBA would be a welcomed next step.

Fox News’ OutKick caught up with the trans-identifying male athlete to ask if the U.S. women’s league was a possibility.

“If they contact me, I won’t say no. But you have to be realistic: I’m old, and there are far better players than me!” the humble player told the outlet on Monday.

Calls for a WNBA team to sign Tétart have come during the league’s ongoing debate over inclusion. After Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham said girls should not have to compete with boys, backlash quickly followed from WNBA fans, coaches, and even an owner.

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Multiple WNBA personnel have struggled to separate the idea of barring men from their sport from the rest of their progressive views.

Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase compared the issue to being criticized for her ethnicity, while Fever head coach Stephanie White said she is not “educated enough from a scientific standpoint” to determine whether the league should allow men.

She added, “I don’t ever believe that exclusion is an answer.”

Tétart crushing the competition

It would be hard to imagine a more dominant performance than the one the 34-year-old put on last season.

Tétart was the only player in the league to break the 20-points-per-game barrier, averaging 21.2, more than four points ahead of the second-highest scorer.

In rebounding, Tétart averaged a massive 20.2 boards per game, almost double the second-highest rebounder, who averaged 10.9 per game.

Tétart was also fifth in steals per game, while averaging the most successful free throws and free-throw attempts per game, by a mile.

This was all without even being in the top 10 for minutes played per game, for which Tétart was ranked 19th.

RELATED: WNBA coach counter-protests Sophie Cunningham with ‘trans kids’ shirt — Caitlin Clark responds

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Tétart, who according to the New York Post came out as transgender in October 2021, while telling OutKick that playing in the WNBA would be a dream, seemingly hinted at not wanting to go to the U.S. because of President Donald Trump.

“Obviously, it’s a childhood dream just like for any female basketball player, but unfortunately, it’s not possible,” Tétart said.

“The league, yes. The country, no, haha,” Tétart continued. However, when pressed further on the subject, the player simply replied, “I won’t say no.”

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A Florida pastor, who previously was a public school employee, is accused of sexually battering a 14-year-old boy. The pastor was hit with several charges, including being an HIV-infected person having sex without informing a partner.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that 42-year-old Timothy Chaneyfield was arrested on July 29.

‘We believe he’s a super-spreader.’

Chaneyfield was charged with four counts of an HIV-infected person having sex without informing a partner, three counts of lewd battery of a minor, three counts of traveling to meet a minor, three counts of interfering with custody of a minor, one count of unlawful use of a two-way communication device, one count of possession of marijuana, and five counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.

His bond is more than $350,000, the sheriff’s office said.

Police launched an investigation into Chaneyfield on July 28 after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding his engagement in inappropriate contact with a child.

Police said Chaneyfield is a pastor at St. James United American Free Will Baptist Church in Winter Haven and a chaplain for Compassionate Care Hospice.

Police stated they interviewed a 14-year-old alleged male victim who said he met Chaneyfield on a dating mobile app and continued to communicate with him on Instagram.

The statement reads, “Chaneyfield picked up the victim on three consecutive days at the entrance to the victim’s subdivision, then drove the victim to his house in Winter Haven, where he had sex with the victim each day.”

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office said Chaneyfield called the alleged victim to tell the minor he wanted to continue the sexual relationship.

Chaneyfield told the boy he was traveling to Baltimore for work. Detectives determined that Chaneyfield was flying to Baltimore to preside over a funeral.

Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives and officers with the Orlando Police Department arrested Chaneyfield at the Orlando International Airport when he returned to Florida from Baltimore on July 29.

Chaneyfield was booked into the Orange County Jail and transferred to the Polk County Jail on Aug. 1.

Police said Chaneyfield admitted to Polk County Sheriff’s Office detectives to having illicit sex with the teen.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office added that “during a separate investigation, an adult male reported to the PCSO that he had sex with Chaneyfield and learned after the fact that Chaneyfield was HIV-positive.”

Police added, “Detectives confirmed that Chaneyfield is HIV-positive and is taking medication for the disease, and that Chaneyfield did not inform the adult victim, nor the child, about his HIV status.”

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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said during a Tuesday news conference that Chaneyfield is “dangerous.”

Judd said Chaneyfield “used the power and the persuasion of a well-recognized minister in order to groom children and apparently at least one adult … in order to have sex.”

“He’s a dope-smoking pedophile preacher,” Judd said.

“Timothy is HIV-positive,” Judd said. “He failed to tell this 14-year-old child that [he is] HIV positive, and he had unprotected sex with a child and exposed our 14-year-old victim to HIV.”

“The 14-year-old had no clue that he was having unprotected sex with an adult that was HIV-positive,” Judd explained.

Sheriff Judd said the adult who had sex with Chaneyfield is now HIV-positive.

“We believe he’s a super-spreader,” the sheriff stated.

Police said the teen was provided with medication for treating HIV.

“This guy’s nasty. He’s a menace to society, and he’s proven that,” the sheriff said of Chaneyfield.

“Jesus don’t like that, and he’ll have to answer for that one day to a court much higher than ours,” Judd continued.

Judd also said Chaneyfield has “no remorse.”

“He’s an evil man,” Judd stated.

“We fear that there’s other victims out there because he was very aggressive and very adamant about having sex with apparently adults or children,” the sheriff stated.

“I would be shocked if there weren’t other children victims out there,” Judd said.

Sheriff Judd pointed out that “we actually tried to catch him while he was in Baltimore because we didn’t even want him wandering the streets of Baltimore.”

However, Judd said his police department received “zero assistance” from authorities in Baltimore; a spokesperson for Judd identified the agency as the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, NBC News reported, adding that an MTAP representative could not be immediately reached for comment Wednesday.

A spokesperson for Polk County Public Schools told WTVT-TV that Chaneyfield worked as a substitute teacher for two years beginning in 2012, a paraeducator from 2014 to 2016, and a network manager from 2016 to 2024.

Chaneyfield previously worked at Crystal Lake Middle School, police said.

The school system stated, “We are thankful that the Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested this individual to protect the community from any further harm. As always, we cooperate fully with law enforcement to protect students and staff.”

The Ledger reported that Chaneyfield also was a pastor at New Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Haines City in 2020.

Anyone with information regarding Chaneyfield is urged to contact the Polk County Sheriff’s Office at 863-298-6200.

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In light of Sophie Cunningham’s support for only women playing in women’s sports — not men dressed as women — Golden State Valkyries head coach Natalie Nakase used a recent press conference to defend the inclusion of men in women’s athletics.

BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is tired of hearing it, mocking Nakase’s case for the inclusion of men on a women’s court.

“Sports is about belonging, inclusivity, authentic self, and that includes transformers,” Whitlock mocks Nakase, pointing out that “she equates her own story, her height, her ethnicity, door slam with a sex category invasion she never had to live.”

And that’s exactly what Nakase did, as she claimed that being criticized herself has led her to have empathy for transgenders.

“How I’m seeing it is if I could answer with like for me, sports, sports is about belonging. It’s about inclusivity. It’s about allowing everyone to be their authentic self. You know, I’m big on that just because I have been criticized for my height, for my ethnicity,” Nakase said.

“I’ve been in those, ‘you shouldn’t belong here,’ many times. And for me, I don’t want that space, especially Golden State, to ever feel like that. So I’m all about women, little girls, deserving to play, and that includes trans women. So I’m all about inclusivity,” she added.

“I’ve been called fat. … So that’s why I’m inclusive of pedophiles, because I’ve been called fat. Don’t you see? Once you’ve been called fat, you believe in pedophilia,” Whitlock mocks. “That’s the logic she’s unpacking.”

“This is just ridiculous. I can’t believe that we have reached a point in human civilization where this is a talking point and a topic. I don’t. I, for the life of me, can’t understand. I’m watching the footage right now. I would be dominating that league,” Jay Skapniac chimes in.

“I’m 6’3”. I’m in my 40s. I haven’t touched the ball in like seven or eight years. Like, give me two months. Get me out there. And I’m dropping triple-doubles nightly,” he adds.

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As AI sweeps through your favorite devices, services, and apps, there’s one category that hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention (yet): robots.

Artificial intelligence is being crammed into all kinds of robot forms that are destined for consumers, from robot vacuums to doglike pets and even humanoid servants meant to live in your home and help you do chores.

The worst part? Many of these bots come from Chinese companies, prompting enough concern over national security and personal privacy that the Trump administration just handed down a new Chinese robot ban that is effective immediately.

What the ban entails

In late July, the Trump administration announced that it would ban U.S. imports on new intelligent robot products that hail from China. This is significant, since the ban covers most of the smart robot market. According to the Associated Press, China owns about 85% of this product segment, dwarfing American companies like Boston Dynamics with its lethal dog robot, as well as Tesla, which has yet to ship its Optimus humanoid robot that debuted in 2022.

A Roomba vacuum took revealing photos of a woman in her bathroom.

It’s important to note that the ban only covers new products bound for the United States. Any existing Chinese-developed robots that currently reside within our borders are allowed to stay. President Trump’s FCC used a similar tactic when it banned foreign-made Wi-Fi routers earlier this year, so it’s not unprecedented for these existing products to remain active for months or years after restrictions are put in place.

The Chinese robot ban includes a wide range of products, such as humanoid robots made by Unitree and Agibot; robot vacuums made by Roomba, Roborock, Ecovacs, and Dreame Technology; quadruped (four-legged) robots made by Xiaomi; and power inverters by Huawei (a company that is no stranger to U.S. bans during Trump’s first term) and Sungrow Power Supply.

In the FCC’s announcement, the agency cited national security as the primary reason for the ban, stating that “relying on foreign-produced advanced robotic devices presents unacceptable supply chain and cybersecurity vulnerabilities” for the nation.

China has a shady history with US tech

This should come as a shock to absolutely nobody, and when you consider how many tech innovations China has stolen from the U.S. over the years, it’s surprising that something like this didn’t happen sooner.

RELATED: Trump fumes as China pilfers top US tech — and goes unpunished

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Here is a brief rundown of China’s illicit activities around U.S. tech and intelligence.

Chinese AI companies were recently caught distilling data from American AI giants, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and more.A Chinese spy received a life sentence for swiping AI trade secrets from Google.Several Chinese websites are stealing users’ faces, hidden under the guise of putting people’s likenesses into movies, shows, and video games for fun.Chinese-made TikTok once posed a huge threat to the United States, ultimately leading to the sale of U.S. operations to a domestic joint venture to avoid an outright ban.Chinese hackers were caught stealing tens of thousands of State Department emails that were managed by Microsoft.And for the coup de grace, China led an election interference campaign and walked away with 220 million U.S. voter files, the largest compromise of election data in history, according to President Trump.

What makes Chinese robots so dangerous?

Unlike foreign-made Wi-Fi routers that only had the power to monitor your web traffic (which is bad enough), Chinese-made robots are even more invasive. Many of these devices come equipped with high-tech sensors like LIDAR that map every corner of your house and save the data to the cloud. Newer premium robot vacuums also have high-definition camera systems capable of snapping photos and recording video. Manufacturers claim that these are intended to help the vacuum “see” where it’s going and to steer around potential obstacles, like toys, shoes, and pets. Regardless of the reason, these cameras let the vacuum view your home and everyone in it, with real consequences.

In 2022, MIT Technology Review revealed that a Roomba vacuum took revealing photos of a woman in her bathroom. These images were sent to an AI startup company tasked with using captured data to train AI models, and somehow, several of them appeared in a private group on social media. When pressed about the incident, Roomba’s parent company claimed that the images came from modified devices given to company employees who agreed to share their data. Furthermore, consumer devices were never at risk of data exposures.

Whether employees willingly signed up to be filmed in intimate spaces or not, one glaring concern still stands for the rest of us. Robot vacuums are effectively surveillance systems that users invite into their homes for the simple convenience of never having to touch a manual vacuum cleaner again. Is this simple trade-off with Chinese spyware really worth it? You can judge for yourself.

If you do have a robot in your home

Although existing Chinese-made robots are still allowed to operate in the United States, you may think twice before letting one roam your home. If you want to get rid of your robot vacuums or other applicable products, you can always sell them on a third-party marketplace or dispose of them through an electronics recycling company.

And if you wish to keep your robot, just know that there are valid reasons they were banned from the United States.

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The group behind the Miss North Carolina USA contest says the decision to strip the title from 27-year-old Brittany Boltinhouse was a “difficult” one.

The Mexican-Honduran model from Beulaville posted messages years ago that the organization said went against its values.

She had warned that voting for Kamala Harris would risk turning America into a ‘third world country.’

Boltinhouse is also a supporter of President Donald Trump, though that wasn’t included in the organization’s statement.

“This decision was not made lightly,” the organizers said on Instagram. “It followed a thorough review of recently surfaced information and was based on the totality of the circumstances and our responsibility to preserve the integrity of the Miss North Carolina USA title and the values of our organization.”

The posts were not included, but the NC Beat documented that Boltinhouse used the N-word numerous times between 2017 and 2018, and referred to herself as “toxic.”

She had warned that voting for Kamala Harris would risk turning America into a “third world country” in another post and also shared a photograph of herself at a Trump rally, according to the Beat.

The discovery led to backlash from some who objected to her posts and called her a “self-hating, Trump-supporting, racist, ignorant women [sic] who does not speak for me or for any of the other ACTUAL PROUD HISPANAS.”

Miss USA Chairman and CEO Thom Brodeur said that “racism, homophobia, transphobia, [and] language that strips any person of their dignity” are against the organization’s values, but it’s unclear if he was referring to her posts or her support of the president.

“As an organization entrusted with selecting and preparing women to represent our states on the national stage,” the organization continued, “we must uphold the standards and values that our titleholders agree to embrace when accepting the honor of wearing the crown.”

The incident is even more bizarre considering that Trump once owned the Miss USA pageant before he became president.

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Myla Hadley, the runner-up in the pageant contest, will take up the mantle of Miss North Carolina USA 2026.

Boltinhouse was the first Honduran model to win the Miss North Carolina USA title.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed Thursday that a hacker had been able to scrape voter data from the 2020 election in Maricopa County, Arizona.

FBI Director Kash Patel released a letter outlining that the hacker had allegedly confessed, but local prosecutors refused to file charges against him.

‘He kept the files stored at his home but destroyed them shortly before the FBI raided his home in Fountain Hills.’

The digital infiltration included an astounding 633,000 voter files, of which 930 were described as “sensitive voter information,” according to one FBI document. The sensitive voter information was described as “domestic violence victims, judges, and law enforcement officers.”

“He kept the files stored at his home but destroyed them shortly before the FBI raided his home in Fountain Hills,” the FBI director added.

Despite the suspect’s confession, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona, the Arizona attorney general, the Maricopa County district attorney, and the Pima County district attorney all declined to prosecute, according to Patel.

Blaze News reached out to the respective offices of the U.S. attorney in Arizona, the Arizona attorney general, the Maricopa County district attorney, and the Pima County district attorney for comment.

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The case was thoroughly investigated by the FBI and was closed in 2023, according to another FBI document.

A White House official told the Center Square that investigators did not believe the hacker was working with foreign agents. The suspect expressed remorse, and no ballots or voter registrations were altered, according to the official.

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The conservative political class is committing one of the most disastrous acts of political malpractice in recent memory.

When Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre chided Americans for complaining about the price of staples such as milk and eggs, she did serious damage to the Democratic Party. Many voters backed Donald Trump because they trusted him to address inflation and the broader affordability crisis. Now conservative pundits and influencers are repeating the same mistake, telling consumers that everything is fine and that only economic illiterates think groceries, gas, and housing cost too much.

Democrats lost because they cut themselves off from reality. Republicans have no reason to copy the strategy.

Elections are not won by lecturing voters that their problems are imaginary. This is Politics 101. Professional political actors adopting the strategy months before the midterms is both bizarre and dangerous.

Affordability is not a Democrat talking point or a socialist catchphrase. It is real, and it will dominate every foreseeable election. Republicans understood this when Biden occupied the White House. The problem did not disappear when Trump returned.

People can feel that the economy is not working for them. They can see the American dream drifting farther out of reach. Conservative pundits may produce charts, cite aggregate statistics, and explain that certain indicators look healthy. None of that will save the GOP any more than it saved Democrats who insisted that “Bidenomics” was working.

The party cannot dismiss this anger as a failure of messaging. Voters do not experience the economy as an abstraction. They experience it at the checkout counter, at the gas pump, when the insurance bill arrives, and when another year of saving still leaves a starter home beyond reach. Their judgment is concrete and entirely rational.

The price of some discretionary goods, such as flat-screen televisions, may have fallen. The essentials of ordinary life have not followed the same path. Food, health care, child care, education, insurance, housing, electricity, and gasoline remain punishingly expensive. Gross domestic product and a surging stock market may comfort those already winning in the economy, but they are poor measures of the daily experience of a family struggling to stay afloat.

Many of the underlying problems are nearly untouchable in a democratic system. The hard truth is that buying votes is often the optimal electoral strategy. No candidate wins by promising voters that their benefits will shrink, their home values will fall, and their taxes will rise.

Trump understands this better than anyone. He promised not to touch major entitlements, pledged to protect home values, and proposed eliminating taxes on tips. America may be on a slow collision course with fiscal disaster, but no politician wants to lose an election by volunteering to hold the bomb when it explodes.

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The American version of this problem has modern features, but the core dilemma is ancient. Large civilizations require immense resources. When rulers can no longer obtain enough through ordinary taxation, they manipulate the currency.

Roman emperors knew little of modern monetary theory, but they understood that reducing the precious-metal content of coins allowed the state to mint more of them. The apparent solution eventually helped destroy confidence in the currency and contributed to the collapse of hard money across much of Europe.

There is only so much Trump can do about structural inflation and accumulated debt. He can, however, avoid taking actions that make the problem worse.

Gasoline is the literal fuel of the economy. Higher prices punish voters at the pump and then reappear in the cost of every product that must be transported. Energy bills, food prices, and fuel costs hit households immediately and simultaneously. Voters will remember that squeeze more clearly than any lecture about macroeconomic fundamentals.

The war with Iran has taken on a disturbingly familiar shape. Its champions mocked anyone who warned that the conflict might last more than a few weeks. Now the country approaches a critical midterm election with no end in sight.

This was predictable. Once a war begins, the ability to control its scope and duration rapidly diminishes. Machiavelli put it plainly: “Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”

The same pundits who demanded war now tell voters they are stupid or selfish for noticing its economic consequences. They will inevitably blame any disastrous midterm result on the people who opposed the conflict, but the political reality is obvious.

The central issue is not that voters have developed a sophisticated position on Iran. Many probably care little about the strategic details. They care that everything costs more. Telling them they lack economic literacy has roughly the same electoral appeal as shooting a puppy on live television.

America has already spent tens of billions of dollars on the Iran war and depleted munitions stockpiles that will require years and billions more to rebuild. The Republican House also approved another $8 billion in loans for Ukraine, despite Trump’s promise to end that war immediately.

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The United States does not have this money sitting in a vault. It must be taxed, borrowed, or created. Each method imposes a cost on Americans who receive little material benefit from these foreign conflicts.

The political system limits what Republicans can do about inflation. Ending vast expenditures on wars that do not improve the lives of voters is nevertheless the most obvious place to begin.

The road ahead is difficult, but many of the wounds are self-inflicted. The first step toward recovery is to stop repeating the behavior that caused them.

End funding for the war in Ukraine. Bring American forces home from the Persian Gulf. Stop telling voters that concern over rising prices is foolish, greedy, or manufactured by Democrats.

The GOP still has one advantage: Democrats remain deeply unpopular. Redistricting has improved the Republican electoral map, and the left continues to repel many ordinary voters. There may still be time to limit the damage or even regain momentum.

But first the war hawks must admit that they were wrong — again — and change course.

Democrats lost because they cut themselves off from reality. Republicans have no reason to copy the strategy.

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