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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 12:54 PM Nov 2018

Milbank, WaPo: We have no excuses now, our eyes are wide open (indictment of Trump)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-time-our-eyes-are-wide-open/2018/11/02/c14d4cf2-deca-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f3f1b89e6107

This time, our eyes are wide open.

Exactly two years ago, many Americans held their noses and voted for Donald Trump. Some were conservatives willing to tolerate his vulgar excesses in hopes of getting tax cuts, a repeal of Obamacare and a friendlier judiciary. Others had Clinton fatigue. Sure, they were concerned about Trump’s words about Mexican “rapists” and what he liked to do to women — but maybe those were just words. Maybe Trump could build a coalition across traditional party lines to get things done.

Now, all Americans have seen the results with their own eyes:

Trump defended neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville.
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Milbank, WaPo: We have no excuses now, our eyes are wide open (indictment of Trump) (Original Post) steve2470 Nov 2018 OP
A seemingly automatic 43% republicon vote may be a given . . . empedocles Nov 2018 #1

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
1. A seemingly automatic 43% republicon vote may be a given . . .
Sat Nov 3, 2018, 01:10 PM
Nov 2018

. . . ., don't bother with excuses, that 43%, not much.

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