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The end of majority rule The cover illustrating TIME's Oct. 14 story by Michael Scherer and Alex Altman was a hit on Twitter, where readers called the image "haunting," "stark" and "right on." Many expressed anger at Tea Party politicians, comparing them to elected ideologues in Germany in the 1930s--and, in at least one case, suggesting their intransigence was criminal. "I don't see at which point the tactic of destroying the American economy ceases to be an infantile tantrum and enters the realm of treason," wrote David Friedenberg of Manchester, N.H. Others, like Bonnie O'Neil of Newport Beach, Calif., felt the...

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