"Election was never about these issues"

[bigtree]

Alan Kestrel ‏@AlanKestrel750 12h12 hours ago
There was an article about Trump appointing a lot of "globalists", and this Reddit comment on it was really good

[mcar]

1. K&R

[wiggs]

2. Broken public discourse a big part of the election. A lot of unchallenged lies told. nt

[rurallib]

6. does that include the media weighing in almost exclusively on one side?

[mopinko]

9. yes. lies of omission.

everywhere, in every paper, on every channel.

[Wounded Bear]

3. K & R ...... nt

[JHan]

4. +1,000,000

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Let this become an axiom in our fight against the Right.

Republicans broadcast their own faults by projecting them onto their opponents. And the media is stupid enough to reinforce the deflectionary tactic.

[Salviati]

14. I've always said that if you want to know what a conservative is guilty of,

you need simply look at the accusations that they levy on others.

[duffyduff]

7. It was the bigot vote and the religious nuts who carried the day.

Assuming the votes for Trump were even genuine to begin with.

It sure as hell wasn't about the economy or even the ACA. That meme has been debunked.

[LonePirate]

8. And with Dems who did not vote (or were prevented from voting).

He won Michigan with ~30K voters fewer votes than W received when he lost the state in 2004.

[Martin Eden]

10. The swing vote believed it was about those issues

"swing vote" = traditional Democratic voters weren't already in the racist & religious right camps

Of course, Trump was NEVER actually going to work on behalf of the suckers he conned into voting for him.

The question now is, how many of them will resist admitting they were duped into voting what they thought they were voting against.

[TonyPDX]

11. Exactly. They were duped and we're all paying for it.

[tblue37]

12. "NY Magazine": The Will to Power

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/trump-mcconnell-putin-and-the-triumph-of-the-will-to-power.html

December 10, 2016
11:06 a.m.
Trump, McConnell, Putin, and the Triumph of the Will to Power
By Jonathan Chait

[LittleGirl]

13. this is exactly

what we're fighting. I'm so glad someone was able to put it so bluntly and simply.

fuck...

[Angry Dragon]

15. kick

[fleabiscuit]

16. KICK

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Wish I could rec this multiple times

[gratuitous]

18. This is a good strategy

Remind people of the alleged issues of the campaign (personal corruption, excessive coziness with Wall Street, mishandling classified information), and then point out how Trump is considerably worse than anything Clinton was accused of. Really? You were all concerned about Clinton's private e-mail server, the one that wasn't hacked, but you're just fine with Trump considering people like David Petraeus for his cabinet? Petraeus being the fellow who gave away America's military secrets to the woman he was cheating on his wife with.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

19. Hypocricy seems to be one of the defining characteristics of the Right.

That and straight up lying.