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Democracy dies in darkness in Fairfax County

Democracy dies in darkness in Fairfax County

Fairfax County, Virginia, once the home of the general and first president who led the revolution for American freedoms, has become a miasma of poisoned darkness in which democracy is gasping for breath.

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