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This is why we must fear Trump: He makes the insane Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio look sensible
Salon ^ | November 23, 2015 | Amanda Marcotte

Posted on 11/23/2015 6:05:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Trump's racism is bad for Republicans now, but the eventual wild-eyed nominee will only look moderate in comparison.

Since the Donald Trump campaign kicked off with demagoguery about Mexican immigration, political watchers have been on quiet but alert fascism watch, carefully monitoring Trump to see if he steps over the line. You can feel in your bones that Trump and his supporters long for to give into the sweet oblivion of balls-out racism, rather than dealing with the tedious process of carefully measuring the lines so you can toe them without stepping so far over that liberal journalists are freed up to use the F-word.

For whatever reason, however, Trump just went there this past week, making headlines for agreeing with the Nazi-reminiscient idea of having a database to keep track of Muslims, which meant that it was game on for liberal journalists to say “fascism.” Now other Republicans are pouncing, denouncing Trump for this registry idea, portraying themselves as champions of the American ideal because they don’t draw comparisons to dictators past. And therein lies the real danger that Trump’s turn to the more belligerent represents: Not that he’ll win the Republican nomination (though that is always a danger), but that he is making all of his competitors look moderate in comparison. As long as Trump keeps lowering the bar, other Republicans can wallow in all sorts of grotesque behavior, knowing that they still look pretty good in comparison....

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only insane thing about this article is Amanda Marcotte and Salon.


21 posted on 11/23/2015 6:16:39 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

C’mon 2ndDV, my ribs can’t take too much more of this hilarious material! lol

Salon is to responsible journalism what Larry Flynt is to wholesome family values.


22 posted on 11/23/2015 6:16:56 PM PST by mkjessup (What do terrorists, 'RATs and RINOs fear most? The prospect of President Donald J. Trump!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The crazier Obama becomes, the more desperate libs are to call his opposites crazy.


23 posted on 11/23/2015 6:17:42 PM PST by skeeter
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To: WENDLE

One can only hope that LIBs lose going forward. They are insufferable when they have positions of influence, power or authority.


24 posted on 11/23/2015 6:18:39 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You can smell the stench of the liberals’ fear. Good.


25 posted on 11/23/2015 6:20:02 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh noes!

Amanda Marcotte crawled over the gate of her "safe space"!

The Horror! The Horror!

26 posted on 11/23/2015 6:20:44 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: Olog-hai

That face...


27 posted on 11/23/2015 6:22:37 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: Balding_Eagle

Fun to watch a liberal hack sputter with helpless rage.


28 posted on 11/23/2015 6:24:30 PM PST by altura (Cruz for our country)
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To: Olog-hai
To quote Scott Adams: "the angry wife face"


29 posted on 11/23/2015 6:25:19 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
“Trumps racism” Such as?

They mean to make the charge stick, Islamophobia and hatred of Hispanic people, roughing up BLM spokesman etc. The charges will not need to be proved the constant drum beat and ridicule will persuade the low information voters. It won't matter if its Cruz either it is the bread and butter in their play book and they will be helped by the GOPe. They convinced the public that Palin was a bimbo, they can do the same again.

30 posted on 11/23/2015 6:27:40 PM PST by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What I find interesting about the treasonists is how they are ramping up the “racist” and “Hitler” articles on Trump more and more every day out desperation. When that grows old on the public like it’s doing now, then what are they going to do? I wonder if they will start stamping their feet like children going into temper tantrums. Pass the popcorn.


31 posted on 11/23/2015 6:31:39 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: skeeter

Best observation yet


32 posted on 11/23/2015 6:33:25 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubio is a war mongering lunatic. OK, he pretends to be so he can get the neocons behind him.

If he really means half of what he says, Trump actually is more sane.


33 posted on 11/23/2015 6:36:04 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: All

Sadly, not even standing in the middle of gibbering imbeciles could not make Amanda look sensible.


34 posted on 11/23/2015 6:40:48 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The spinweavers contort creatively to re-insert their plastic MexCon into civilized Concervats. Poor Marc Rubio. Like marleys ghost. Doomed to grovel through history with the gang of eight as a self forged legacy around his neck.

R.


35 posted on 11/23/2015 6:42:23 PM PST by Rabin
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

36 posted on 11/23/2015 6:48:43 PM PST by Castlebar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And Ted Cruz is insane because why? This is the state of America nowadays. You have an insignificant scribbler like Amanda Marcotte who basically writes gibberish but is taken seriously by millions of people.

What exactly is it that Ted Cruz espouses that is insane? Belief in following the constitution? You mean Cruz wouldn't make it up as he goes along like King Barack?

Basically, Marcotte is upset because she knows Cruz would try to halt the "basic transformation" of America that King Barack began.

37 posted on 11/23/2015 6:56:27 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Salon is over edge.


38 posted on 11/23/2015 7:01:20 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remember the author was once the “Official Blogger” of the Silky Pony presidential campaign; he had to fire her because she was too nutty even for him.


39 posted on 11/23/2015 7:04:15 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But the community organizer nitwit is so damn smart. /s. He just hates patriotic Americans. I’ll take any of those three as compared to the idiot we have now!


40 posted on 11/23/2015 7:09:46 PM PST by kcvl
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