Posted on 04/22/2019 10:17:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A couple of very long years ago, 62.9 million Americans voted to make a racist reality star — who, by his own account, had no experience at governing, but plenty at groping random married women — their president. By the time these votes were cast, Donald Trump had called for banning all Muslims from the United States, led a movement contesting the first black president’s legitimacy, insinuated that the bulk of Mexican-Americans were drug dealers or rapists, praised his supporters for assaulting (nonwhite) protesters, and vowed to subject each and every one of America’s 11 million undocumented immigrants, including those brought to the U.S. as children, to deportation.
Nevertheless, 46 percent of the U.S. electorate thought him worthier of the White House than a former senator and secretary of State (who just happened to be the first major-party nominee with the kind of genitalia that Trump boasted about grabbing).
For many liberals, it is difficult to reconcile this set of facts with a magnanimous view of their Trump-voting compatriots. And it is harder still to hear nonpartisan political analysts — and even some putatively progressive pundits — attribute the demagogue’s victory to motives as innocent as “economic anxiety,” or even to his opponent’s failures of empathy. As if Republican voters’ decision to rally behind a self-professed pussy-grabber had somehow discredited Hillary Clinton’s suggestion that there were “deplorables” among them. For decades, progressives had been begging the mainstream media to acknowledge the centrality of racial animus and misogyny to the GOP’s appeal. Now, the party had traded its dog whistle for a foghorn; “self deportation” for a Muslim ban; and the patriarchy’s polite, paternalistic superego for its bawdy, hateful id. The mask was off. The unsightly (and oddly orange) face of reaction fully exposed.
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I couldn’t read the whole thing, I need a barf bag.
It was important to demand Trump’s tax returns but not a legitimate birth certificate from Obama.
Where is the Barf Alert?
Where’s the “BS Meter” when we need one?
Hey!
“Dammit post a Fake News Barf Bag warning the next time.
“
Thanks to Fiddlstix for the above realities to this bs!
Quite the kidder, this guy.
That writer is truly disturbed.
If you read just the part that’s tagged into the post, the remarkable observation is that the ENTIRE THING is one lie after another.
A collection of misdirected bits and pieces built on clouds of false premises and information.
It’s quite an accomplishment if you look at that way.
AND the writer gets paid by New York Magazine to write that way. Only In America!
The mass delusion and insanity of liberals on full display.
It gives me a warm feeling just to know that I had some small part in causing this guy's hissy fit.
Go put some ice on that lip, sweetie.
Clinton was a known pussy licker when he was in the White House officially but the left said it’s okay.
I’ll bet that his Twitter timeline is entertaining...
Beware the use of adjectives and adverbs.
Clinically delusional.
Seriously, it is remarkable that high numbers of people can be ignorant in such a sophisticated way. That humanity can self-deceive to the same infinite magnitude as in the most serious psychotic cases of psychiatric delusion.
Thousands can tie their shoes, make it to work, order dinner, pay bills, and at the same time believe Trump is a racist pussy grabber with Fascist intentions.
I would have used the “BS Flag” GIF if I still had access to certain emoticon web sites.
Wow!
10 insults/lies/slanders in the first paragraph alone!
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