Charles P. Pierce: This Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Trump Campaign Is Terrifying

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This Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Trump Campaign Is Terrifying

They admitted they don't want black people to vote.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a50049/behind-the-scenes-trump-campaign/






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By Charles P. Pierce
Oct 27, 2016



Thursday's required reading on the subject of Rats: How They Won't Fck Themselves comes from Bloomberg News, courtesy of Josh Green and Sasha Issenberg, who were allowed inside the guts of the Trump campaign—"Only the best e.coli. Great e.coli!"—to see what's actually going on with it beyond rallies and baseball caps. What they found should scare the hell out of two groups that otherwise have little contact with each other—people who care about the health of our democracy, and Republicans.

As to the former, the big noisy takeaway is an admission from "a senior campaign official" that the primary goal of the actual Trump campaign is to suppress the votes of people who have demonstrated a deep immunity to the appeal of El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago.

"We have three major voter suppression operations under way," says a senior official. They're aimed at three groups Clinton needs to win overwhelmingly: idealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americans. Trump's invocation at the debate of Clinton's WikiLeaks e-mails and support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership was designed to turn off Sanders supporters. The parade of women who say they were sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton and harassed or threatened by Hillary is meant to undermine her appeal to young women. And her 1996 suggestion that some African American males are "super predators" is the basis of a below-the-radar effort to discourage infrequent black voters from showing up at the polls—particularly in Florida.

OK, so this is nasty and distasteful and dangerous, and it's a wonder that John Lewis doesn't just show up for work some morning with an ax in his hand and murder in his eye. But it can't really be surprising. Suppressing minority voters—rather than, say, earning their support with something beyond "What have you got to lose?"—is now as conventional a piece of Republican electoral strategy as tax cuts and fetus-fondling are........................

[Fast Walker 52]

1. Just was reading that! I posted the original Bloomberg piece here earlier today

this one--
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go

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2. They are unbelievably shitty human beings

The sad part is that many of us aren't the least bit surprised.

[TeamPooka]

3. Donald Trump and Steve Bannon just grabbed the Republican Party by the pussy. nt

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4. Can You Imagine if Bannon's Emails Were Leaked?

Doubt you would find any rissoto recipes.