By Rinaldo S. Brutoco September 17, 2025 It is with a heavy heart that I am recirculating three articles originally published in the Montecito Journal in 2021. These pieces were written in response to remarks by Marjorie Taylor Greene suggesting that Red States should secede from Blue States. In those articles, I advanced the view … Continue Reading
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