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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump being president scares the hell out of me.
Please, somebody...anybody...talk me down.
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Trump being president scares the hell out of me. (Original Post)
MuttLikeMe
Jan 2016
OP
me too, but I'm hoping the American people are too smart for his brand of racist BS nt
steve2470
Jan 2016
#8
Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)1. Simmuh.
First, it will never happen.
But, if it did, just think of the entertainment level.
And, just think about our margin of victory in 2020....the year of all the very important ten year state census when districts are redrawn.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)2. You can always join me in Canada should that happen. n/t
MuttLikeMe
(279 posts)7. I just might.
Punkingal
(9,522 posts)3. personally I will never forgive his ass for foisting Sarah Palin on us again.
(Not that I would ever vote for him.)
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)5. In time, the rage and fear recede, leaving comedy.
fascism and comedy- two sides of a coin. A weird coin.
MuttLikeMe
(279 posts)6. That's little comfort, I'm afraid. :(
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)4. Just watch the Wizard of Oz again, with a nice cup of tea.
Soon it will all be over, and you'll be back in Kansas again.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)8. me too, but I'm hoping the American people are too smart for his brand of racist BS nt
Donkees
(31,394 posts)9. Excerpts: "What if Trump Wins?"
https://newrepublic.com/article/124560/trump-wins
"So how would Republicans deal with Trump as their candidate? As it happens, the 1964 election offers a likely guide to how the GOP could be riven apart and where that could take the partyand American politics.
Barry Goldwaters nomination tore the party in half because he was the avatar of a wider conservative insurgency that displaced the moderate Republicanism of President Eisenhowers crowd. For the moderates, Goldwater was a frightening figure not only because he adopted extreme positions (opposition to the Civil Rights Act, an unwillingness to disavow the conspiracy-obsessed John Birch Society), but also for his habit of making reckless remarks, like suggesting the Pentagon lob one into the mens room at the Kremlin.
...The hostilities played out on national television during the convention in which Goldwater was selected in San Francisco. Rockefeller and Scranton tried to exert a moderating influence on the platform, only to be met with heckling and catcalls. Eisenhower said the ruckus of the convention was unpardonableand a complete negation of the spirit of democracy. I was bitterly ashamed. The former president also said that during the convention his young niece had been molested by Goldwater-supporting hooligans. The disarray of that convention anticipated some of the rowdiness of Trump events, as in the recent roughing up of a black protester in Birmingham, Alabama, which Trump himself egged on and justified.
...The partys African-American supporters were a special case in point. African-Americans comprised only one percent of delegates and alternatives at the convention, a record low. Even so, there were some ugly incidents when Southern whites baited the blacks with insults and racial epithets and, in one case, deliberately burned a black delegates suit jacket with cigarettes. Baseball star Jackie Robinson, then the most famous black Republican, said, I now believe I know how it felt to be a Jew in Hitlers Germany."
LWolf
(46,179 posts)10. He won't be. nt