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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy: David Frum, out on Tues, May 26,excerpts:
Hard hitting book about Donald Trump. Coming out on Tuesday..I haven't heard of it before today.
We will all hear about it very soon. Here are excerpts :
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"Trump is a swindler, but the Trumpocalypse of 2020 represents something a lot bigger and a lot worse than a swindle. In the fall of 2019, a nonpartisan research organization studied the distinctive attitudes of Republicans who watched Fox News as their primary source of information. Among that group, 55 percent said there was virtually nothing President Trump could do that would change their minds about supporting him. Fox News and the Facebook feed have become for many Americans friends more intimate and trusted than family or neighbors. The validation of their prejudices by television and Facebook is a validation of themselves."
"And so, for the sake of flag and faith, millions of decent conservative Americans countenanced scandals, wrongs, disloyalty, and crime. Trumps followers live in an isolated knowledge community that has developed its own situational ethics. They wanted to lock up Hillary Clinton for sending and receiving emails on a personal server, not caring even slightly when Ivanka Trump did the exact same thing or when Trump outright blabbed to the Russian foreign minister secrets much more vital than anything Clinton could possibly have risked. They plunged into the QAnon fantasy of a wise and good Trump poised to crush a global ring of child molesters, in order to avoid the reality of a malignant Trump who by his own admission had preyed upon teenage beauty-pageant contestants."
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)Stuart G
(38,414 posts)know that a storm is coming for Trump. And it will be quite a storm.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)who was asked if Jesus told him rump was bad, what would he think and he admitted he would question Jesus.
They have guns but as Michael Moore (god he makes me mad these days) said on Maher, dont be afraid of them, and we must not be.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)...That is the same 25 million people who when Nixon resigned, thought he was still innocent. "He hadn't done anything wrong."
What could happen, (nobody knows the future) is that Trump's reaction to the book, could be worse than anything the book says or repeats about Trump. It could be?. Maybe not? We will see when it comes out on Tuesday. We will see how Trump handles it. ..My guess is that all he will say is, "More fake news." and leave it at that.
Aviation Pro
(12,132 posts)Is that Shitbag's simpletons don't read. They are strictly an anecdotal, word-of-mouth species of homo sapiens, in other words, a regression.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)The simpletons will have to argue with the "readers", and my guess is that with the facts in this book, the arguments will convey some ideas that the simpletons are not going to refute. Excerpts will be printed in the media and there will be some information that the simpletons will have to learn, whether they want to or not....We will see, I know very little about this. Got an email from a friend about this book, and that is the first that I heard of it. ..Yes, we will see, but my guess is that Trump will not like this one at all
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)him then what, or if he wont go?