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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 09:00 AM Mar 2016

How Trump Happened


How Trump Happened

It's not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama.


“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically, you’ll find this pearl adorning a classroom or splashed across a motivational poster. But last month, on the eve of Super Tuesday—when a dozen states cast ballots for the Republican presidential nomination—you could find it on Donald Trump’s Instagram page, the caption to a photograph of a massive rally in Alabama the day before.


Perverse as it may seem for the belligerent real estate magnate to channel even apocryphal Gandhi wisdom, the line is apt. First, we did ignore him—as a buffoon who wouldn’t survive past the summer. Then, we laughed at him—as a buffoon who wouldn’t survive through fall. Eventually, Republicans began to fight him, terrified of his traction with voters. Now, he’s winning, with more votes and delegates than anyone left in the field. On the eve of another critical Tuesday slate of votes, Trump is on the verge of an even greater victory. Polls show him in command both in the smaller states that will award their delegates proportionally, and in the larger, winner-take-all prizes of Ohio and Florida. By Wednesday morning, Trump could be a stone’s throw from the Republican presidential nomination.


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/03/how_donald_trump_happened_racism_against_barack_obama.html
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How Trump Happened (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2016 OP
The country developed a nostalgia for a LIE, and Democrats participated in that. Mass Mar 2016 #1

Mass

(27,315 posts)
1. The country developed a nostalgia for a LIE, and Democrats participated in that.
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 09:31 AM
Mar 2016

The American Dream was based on racism and sexism. White men could have a decent job when working hard because minorities and married women could not for different reasons.

Time has changed and and everybody is expected to access the American Dream, This is not possible, We need a serious change in the social compound. We need to redefine what is expected of people, and to understand that we all have a right to a decent and independent life. This will not be easy, but we will not reach this by saying we will bring back concepts deeply rooted in inequality.

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