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raccoon

(31,106 posts) Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:15 AM Dec 2016

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To me, this overshadows everything else about Trump.

...Trump...was able to take the naked anger and rage of members of his public and successfully direct it at their fellow Americans.

Forget “dialogue” with Donald Trump and his supporters: They have empowered hatred and harm
by CHAUNCEY DEVEGA

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/06/forget-dialogue-with-donald-trump-and-his-supporters-they-have-empowered-hatred-and-harm/

He has encouraged and emboldened Americans' basest impulses.

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To me, this overshadows everything else about Trump. (Original Post) raccoon Dec 2016 OP

He didn't have anything else to run on. Fear, fear, fear. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #1

It is/was all part of the plan. demmiblue Dec 2016 #2

And now the deplorables in the video will be in charge. progressoid Dec 2016 #4

we have been thru it in WI the last 6 years. jodymarie aimee Dec 2016 #3

He did and became much more successful after Bannon came on board. KittyWampus Dec 2016 #5

TwilightZone

(25,451 posts)

1. He didn't have anything else to run on. Fear, fear, fear.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:17 AM

Dec 2016

He has no ideas, no plans, no interest in actually running the country.

demmiblue

(36,833 posts)

2. It is/was all part of the plan.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 10:30 AM

Dec 2016

I posted this in Video & Multimedia Forum:

To think, the government (the U.S. Military, to be precise) issued this video in 1947. Now, in 2016... it is all about divide and conquer.

progressoid

(49,961 posts)

4. And now the deplorables in the video will be in charge.

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 02:15 PM

Dec 2016

Frightening.

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)

3. we have been thru it in WI the last 6 years.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:56 AM

Dec 2016

and we can predict every shitty thing that will now happen to the entire country.

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)

5. He did and became much more successful after Bannon came on board.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 02:20 PM

Dec 2016

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