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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo the question is how does someone convince people that he can make America great again
while he's taking money from any country and threatening national security in the process?
How does he get away with this?
Dems need to pounce on this reality.
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)making America white again. Every other issue seems to be secondary to them when you boil it down. I don't buy the notion that Trump "won" because of economic concerns.
I have not yet met a Trump supporter who has not shown their racist ass is some way.
malaise
(268,949 posts)He wants global money for himself - by any means necessary
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)He literally can do whatever he wants, and they won't care. It's infuriating.
Trump is enriching himself via the presidency? Who cares? MAGA!! They are brainwashed.
Turbineguy
(37,320 posts)it's Great Again.
And they will believe him.
They may be living in their cars, but it will be a nicer car than that black family at the other side of the Walmart parking lot.
malaise
(268,949 posts)Play that tape when he accused Hillary of using the State Department to collect fromey from Russia, China and wherever. It is what he was and is doing - it was all projection.
He is going down.
Turbineguy
(37,320 posts)Like Aldrich Ames, John Walker Jr., Robert Hanssen, Ollie North and a few other fine specimens.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)be punished, he wasnt sure if jail time or death penalty, as I recall.
His deplorable base had orgasms when they heard that.
lame54
(35,285 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,582 posts)His followers are True Believers, and anything that contradicts their narrow view of the world is quickly discarded. They hated Obama simply because he was black, and cheer every time Trump undoes something his predecessor accomplished, even if what Trump is doing is hurting them or their children. "Yay, he's going to take away my children's healthcare!" "Yay, he's going to make it more expensive to buy overseas products!" "Yay! Our air won't be clean anymore. Our waters won't be pure! Our national lands will become oil fields and strip mines! MAGA!"
I don't know if you've noticed that in addition to the groundswell of support for Donnie Two Scoops to receive the Nobel Peace Prize there's another effort to diminish Obama's award. "What did he do to deserve it?" is what I've heard repeatedly. I know that if Trump could force the Nobel Committee to rescind Obama's award with a scrawl of his marker, he'd do it in a heartbeat. Then he'd hold the folder up to the camera and grin like a first-grader: "Look what I did, Mommy!"
malaise
(268,949 posts)he will eat that fugging 5th Avenue meme in prison.
unblock
(52,203 posts)many people in his camp watch foxnews and/or listen to hate radio literally 10+ hours a day.
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)DFW
(54,362 posts)The country hasn't been all that "great" to a lot of its population for a while--to some, even ever. I am convinced that many of the MAGA people really think it was never great in the first place (for them) but somehow will be as soon as Trump does his whatever-it-is that "libbruls" are preventing him from doing.
The opening scene to "The Newsroom" was one of the best scenes ever shown on American television, and yet, I'm guessing at least 45% of the country believes the opposite.
JHB
(37,158 posts)Makes him as nice and cozy as a pre-warmed bed.
TheSmarterDog
(794 posts)They get the email from the Nigerian Prince, and they begin scheming about how they could actually pull it off.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)"We're gonna kick out the Mexicans and the Muslims and put those police-hating black protestors back in their place!"