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kpete

(72,016 posts) Fri Jan 19, 2018, 09:47 AM Jan 2018

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Don't worry about the shithole stuff. He doesn't really mean it. They never do:

Actually, he meant it.

That was written in 1922. It took him a while to employ his anti-semitism "effectively" for political purposes. But he got it done.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0CE0D91E3EEE3ABC4951DFB7678389639EDE
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https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/oh-those-clownish-demagogues.html

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Don't worry about the shithole stuff. He doesn't really mean it. They never do: (Original Post) kpete Jan 2018 OP

So they start out using hatred as a tool and it snowballs into a horrific evil. Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #1

Irish_Dem

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1. So they start out using hatred as a tool and it snowballs into a horrific evil.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Fri Jan 19, 2018, 09:53 AM

Jan 2018

All done for the sake of obtaining power.

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