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Black Lives Matter accused of heralding a ‘lesbian, anti-family, anti-capitalist Marxist revolution’
The right-wing evangelical political figure Michelle Bachmann's outburst accidentally summoned a utopian vision for the US, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
a Black Lives Matter rally in front of Boardwalk Hall, on September 4, 2020, in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any wackier, we get the return of Michele Bachmann.

The Minnesota Tea Party Republican, who served in Congress between 2006-2015 and briefly ran for president, likes to extol the virtues of “American exceptionalism,” and claims the US is “the indispensable nation of the world.”

 

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