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Across the room, facing Helen, her handmaiden and Paris — and a despondent-looking dog — is Cassandra, who could see the future, along with Apollo, who had cursed her so her prophecies would not be believed.

But the more Trump’s “moderate” handmaidens muddy the political waters, the darker our future looks.

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So many of the Republicans who have played handmaiden to Trump's fascist designs have yet to pay a price for it, so it was a delight watching McCarthy take a year-long pie in the face.

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But so do teachers unions, handmaidens of the Democratic Party, who pushed to keep school doors closed during the pandemic, helping themselves while doing lasting harm to children.

But Republicans and their handmaidens in the "both sides"-obsessed press kept relying on shoddier polls that used ambiguous or misleading language to exaggerate the opposition to abortion.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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