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BALTIMORE — Hillary Clinton may have been unwise to say half of Donald Trump’s supporters are racists and other “deplorables.” But she wasn’t wrong.
If anything, when it comes to Trump’s racist support, she might have low-balled the number.
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In a Republican debate last month, Donald Trump was asked whether his claim that “Islam hates us” means all 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide hate the United States.
“I mean a lot of ’em,” Trump replied, as some in the crowd — Trump supporters, presumably — laughed and applauded.
That ugly moment comes to mind in describing how many of Trump’s supporters have racist motivations for backing him: Not all — but a lot of ’em.
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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians turned an anniversary celebration of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution into a rally protesting President Donald Trump, shouting “death to America” and burning American flags in the streets of Iran.
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A woman wrote to Slate’s Dear Prudence to say she can’t get past her husband’s Trump support, worried it “reveals something about my husband’s character that I didn’t know.” A woman who documents nearly every aspect of her marriage for New York Magazine writes that Trump is tearing it apart.
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The people voting for Trump are largely white men—a subgroup of white men who are entitled, angry, racist and sexist.
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But I can’t understand why you would support someone as hateful, sexist, racist and ignorant as Donald Trump.
How do you support him so blindly? Ask yourself, are you a racist, sexist, hateful and ignorant person as well? I hear his supporters saying they like him because he tells the truth, because he’s so rich he can say whatever he feels like with no apologies. Just because Trump is saying these things doesn’t suddenly make them right.
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P.S. Why oh why do his OP's hit the front page, I don't get it. It wasn't even well written or well crafted.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: AnkhMorpork
P.S. Why oh why do his OP's hit the front page, I don't get it. It wasn't even well written or well crafted.
For OSotC difference in political opinion, he knows how to hit the right notes. A certain arrogance combined with (supposed) ignorance. Righteous superiority crossed with blanket statements. Hyperbole mixed with main stream talking points. I dare say it's got all the right mix of trash to make a stew. The perfect rhetoric and propaganda.
It doesn't have to be well written for everyone on each side to get the point. The point is if you have a stance, it beckons response and that's the simple genius of his threads, no matter how much one (like myself) disagree.
Another way of describing this above statement is that the op makes Trump supporters so butthurt they cannot help but flood the thread and cry foul promoting the thread to the top of the page.
All that you guys need to do is leave it, don't let it get to you, but as we have seen that's not gonna happen.
not by trump just his puppeteers....
originally posted by: pavil
originally posted by: madenusa
Next four years the focus will be on Trump as a personality, not on how we’re all getting screwed by those who are really wielding the power.
I'll bite. How have you been "screwed"?
How do you anticipate being further screwed?