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kairos12

(13,500 posts) Tue Jun 27, 2017, 03:40 PM Jun 2017

If, and I mean if, the Drumpt election is a momentary hiccup how will historians explain it [View all]

50 years from now? Russian collusion, economic dislocation of the working class, hatred of HRC, new power of social media, the unfairness of the electoral system, voter suppression, the onslaught of celebrity culture or some combination of all of these? Or other factors.

Just wondering.

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If, and I mean if, the Drumpt election is a momentary hiccup how will historians explain it [View all] kairos12 Jun 2017 OP

History will focus on his downfall, not ascendancy leftstreet Jun 2017 #1

I suspect that it might be both, because both are noteworthy. Also how civility reemerged -I hope karynnj Jun 2017 #5

Good points leftstreet Jun 2017 #10

Hyper-partisanship, propaganda, voter suppression and collusion will be the focus of historians. LonePirate Jun 2017 #2

Economic and political forces of inequality and racism marylandblue Jun 2017 #3

It will not be a momentary hiccup. He has weakened the Presidency, weakened the image Squinch Jun 2017 #4

IF it is a hiccup,Historians will focus on the changes made or not made as a result MedusaX Jun 2017 #6

Children will pledge allegiance to the United Corporations of America... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2017 #7

I don't give a shit. This is a coup. Fuck the optics, the semantics, all of it. LaydeeBug Jun 2017 #8

Depends on which historians loyalsister Jun 2017 #9