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In reply to the discussion: Salon - Something is seriously wrong with Donald Trump: Let's stop kidding ourselves about that [View all]First Speaker
(4,858 posts)24. How did he get close to the nomination at all...?
...what happened--what weakening of our national political immune system--that made it possible for a man such as Trump to even get close to being selected by the Electoral College? That, to me, is the real issue. Yes, the GOP/Fox "News" axis paved the way. Yes, his "base" is crazy. But still--there will always be a mystery about this. Generations yet unborn will ask their elders, "how did this happen?"...and no one will ever quite be able to explain why...
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Salon - Something is seriously wrong with Donald Trump: Let's stop kidding ourselves about that [View all]
Pluvious
Mar 2019
OP
I wake up every day hoping he's had a stroke or heart attack in the middle of the night.
japple
Mar 2019
#28
Ask any redhat what they would have done if President Obama had acted like that?
japple
Mar 2019
#29
THAT is what I asked myself each step of the way in 2016. The GOP, the actual Party, had ample...
Hekate
Mar 2019
#35
We did not elect him. HRC got 3 million more votes than DT. She's not POTUS because...
Hekate
Mar 2019
#25
You left out the Comey intervention, which IMO was clearly the most important part.
StevieM
Mar 2019
#37
becsuse the country is full of hateful assholes that the media and others always made
JI7
Mar 2019
#43
CPAC allowed him in. They bear the burden of allowing this filth of a so called president...
SWBTATTReg
Mar 2019
#9
Correct in every regard. The Trump Cult cares nothing for the rule of law or international diplomacy
VOX
Mar 2019
#69
According to Fat Donnie: "If we have nuclear weapons, why aren't we using them?"
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
Mar 2019
#26
I'm not kidding when I tell you Trump has already been called out in a book published in 2017.
trickyguy
Mar 2019
#47
Also check out a clip entitled "Duty to Warn". Comments by psychiatrists and psychologists about
trickyguy
Mar 2019
#56
And yet his followers think it was a GREAT speech. Because he "tells it like it is" ya know.
oldsoftie
Mar 2019
#63