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Trump Part 11

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It's water under the bridge, but I don't remember this article about Trump's victory (and Clinton's defeat) being shared here:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n02/rebecca-solnit/from-lying-to-leering

One might argue she lost because of the disenfranchisement of millions of people of colour through long-plotted Republican strategies: cutting the number of polling stations; limiting voting hours; harassing and threatening would-be voters; introducing voter-ID laws such as the Crosscheck programme, which made it a lot harder for people of colour to register to vote. Or because of the FBI’s intervention in the election; or because of years of negative media coverage; or because of foreign intervention designed to sabotage her chances; or because of misogyny. But instead we heard two stories about why she lost (and almost none about why, despite everything, she won the popular vote by a margin that kept growing until by year’s end it reached almost three million).
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How the utopian idealism roused by Sanders’s promises last winter morphed so quickly into a Manichean hatred of Clinton as the anti-Bernie is one of the mysteries of this mysteriously horrific election, but it was so compelling that many people seemed to wake up from the Democratic primary only when Trump won; they had until then believed Clinton was still running against Sanders. Or they believed that she was an inevitable presence, like Mom, and so they could hate her with confidence, and she would win anyway.
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Hillary Clinton was all that stood between us and a reckless, unstable, ignorant, inane, infinitely vulgar, climate-change-denying white-nationalist misogynist with authoritarian ambitions and kleptocratic plans. A lot of people, particularly white men, could not bear her, and that is as good a reason as any for Trump’s victory. Over and over again, I heard men declare that she had failed to make them vote for her. They saw the loss as hers rather than ours, and they blamed her for it, as though election was a gift they withheld from her because she did not deserve it or did not attract them. They did not blame themselves or the electorate or the system for failing to stop Trump.
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The readers' letters commenting on the article are also worth a look.
 
Let's not let ourselves be distracted by the deflections people!

Politico's 'Swamp Diary' is where the real action 'lies'! Nice and concise, with just a wee bit of humour lathered on...

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...ary-jack-shafer-wikileaks-don-trump-jr-215841

I suspect that bright young Hope Hicks' 'months of cramming for her interview' will provide Mueller with all the glue he needs to stick a solid case together, whilst the rest of America puts on another 8 Lbs finishes off their Thanksgiving turkey leftovers.

Meanwhile, Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich's yacht finds a berth in the port of Palm Beach on Friday ahead of Dotard's Thanksgiving weekend retreat to Mar-a-Lago.

Clearly, Ian Flemming is directing world events from beyond the grave!

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Abramovich parked it in front of my window a couple of years ago as I posted. What's interesting is it has a mini-sub on board and he was anchored 0.5 miles from the sea lane used by Britain's ballistic missile submarines, four miles from their base.
 
droodzilla said:
The readers' letters commenting on the article are also worth a look.
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Hillary Clinton was all that stood between us and a reckless, unstable, ignorant, inane, infinitely vulgar, climate-change-denying white-nationalist misogynist with authoritarian ambitions and kleptocratic plans
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hillary clinton was all that stood between us and a decent "socialist" president looking to restore the nation and democratic party to a more caring, equal state of affairs that existed before the crazy right-wing shift that began with ronald reagan and continued through her husband up until the present.
 
vuk said:
hillary clinton was all that stood between us and a decent "socialist" president looking to restore the nation and democratic party to a more caring, equal state of affairs that existed before the crazy right-wing shift that began with ronald reagan and continued through her husband up until the present.
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All, Vuk? Really? The rabid Republican voters would have fallen into line behind Bernie, had he won the nomination?
 
tones said:
All, Vuk? Really? The rabid Republican voters would have fallen into line behind Bernie, had he won the nomination?
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they were never going to bote for any democrat. what would have been different is than many of those who simply stayed home would have come out for bernie. again, as i have said before, this is just a possible copunterfactual hypothesis. maybe bernie would have lost. the tragedy is the denial of that possibility and the massive injustice involved.
 
Oh yes, let's all whinge about last year’s US election!

If there existed a post title field, I'd label this one 'Re:sist Dotard Contagion'
 
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Vlad Putin appears to be a clever man but I don't trust him at all.
Ditto Donald Trump except the clever bit.
 
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