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Donald Trump and America’s new civil war
The Globe and Mail ^ | Omar El Akkad

Posted on 12/10/2017 11:47:55 AM PST by artichokegrower

Barack Obama's presidency was supposed to mark a great leap forward for the United States. But, as Omar El Akkad discovered as he travelled across America this year, the election of Donald J. Trump has turned the country against itself. Scenes from a divided nation

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To: artichokegrower
Hey Omar,

Get the f*** out of my country.

We have more than enough vile, racist leftists without importing them.

61 posted on 12/10/2017 1:07:41 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: tumblindice


62 posted on 12/10/2017 1:10:19 PM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a Cancer on society)
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To: artichokegrower
" . . . the election of Donald J. Trump has turned the country against itself."

BS. The left has been dividing and undermining America for at least 50 years. All Trump's election did was bring the left's hate and divisiveness out in the open for all to see.
63 posted on 12/10/2017 1:27:26 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: artichokegrower

Go to the article, and you can get to the guy’s email address.


64 posted on 12/10/2017 1:33:40 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: artichokegrower

Out! Out! Out!


65 posted on 12/10/2017 1:34:01 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: rockrr

What can I do to push them over the edge?

Laugh at them and give them zero support of any type.


66 posted on 12/10/2017 1:34:53 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP ACT!!)
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To: Lurker

“This guy’s visa needs to be revoked.”

Does he even have a Visa?


67 posted on 12/10/2017 1:36:20 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Build Kate's wall! Keep illegals and illegal murderers/criminals out of America! MAGA! SLAP ACT!!)
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To: tumblindice

Hmm...they could be brothers...


68 posted on 12/10/2017 1:38:45 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: artichokegrower

Omar El Akkad was born in Cairo and lived in Qatar.

So I guess coming from two such wonderful countries it would be normal for him to look down on the United States, our people and our ways. /s


69 posted on 12/10/2017 1:41:03 PM PST by GOPJ (Liberal elite women trading sex for pomotions is abuse of decent traditional women.)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

It’s like Howell Raines writing about Alabama - absolutely ‘no love lost’ between the two.


70 posted on 12/10/2017 1:42:21 PM PST by GOPJ (Liberal elite women trading sex for pomotions is abuse of decent traditional women.)
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To: Fiddlstix

Hey there fiddle - have you forgotten ‘war and misery’?


71 posted on 12/10/2017 1:43:28 PM PST by GOPJ (Liberal elite women trading sex for pomotions is abuse of decent traditional women.)
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To: artichokegrower
"For the past four years, I have lived in America...
...and I haven't learned one thing that is true."

72 posted on 12/10/2017 1:51:35 PM PST by Savage Beast (Leftists hate TRUTH! TRUTH is the bete noire that haunts their paranoia!)
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To: artichokegrower

. I am an immigrant in a country that purports to be a melting pot but is in reality a crucible, a vessel of fierce and fiercely luminous burning.


He has obviously not melted nearly enough, if at all.


73 posted on 12/10/2017 1:59:25 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: artichokegrower

“...the election of Donald J. Trump has turned the country against itself. “

Backward. The country being turned against itself led to the election of Donald Trump


74 posted on 12/10/2017 2:07:35 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yeah, the fool putting Obama and “great leap forward” in that sentence gave me a chuckle.

He must not have a clue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward


75 posted on 12/10/2017 2:14:48 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: GOPJ

Yes. There is that. Thanks for the correction......


76 posted on 12/10/2017 2:17:19 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: artichokegrower

“Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to mark a great leap forward for the United States.”

8 years of beauty, love, puffy clouds? Hahaha hahaha!


77 posted on 12/10/2017 2:19:09 PM PST by Lent
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To: artichokegrower

Funny how all the hard working, hard studying Chinese, Korean, and Indian immigrants are quietly living the American dream with no complaints.

They are the 300 lb. “people of color” gorilla in the room that the Left needed to create BLM to deflect attention away from.


78 posted on 12/10/2017 2:40:25 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: artichokegrower

“But, as Omar El Akkad discovered as he travelled across America this year, the election of Donald J. Trump has turned the country against itself. Scenes from a divided nation.”

What flatulent B.S. The nation was turned against itself long before Trump’s election, and even before Obama’s election. It has for a long time been a nation of the elites in the political class, the sheeple they have indoctrinated to “trust them” and the people who have rebelled over time from the elites.


79 posted on 12/10/2017 3:02:07 PM PST by Wuli
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To: artichokegrower

Hate to be the bearer of bad news Omar:

1. The country was divided LONG before Trump was elected.

And b:

Those White Supremacist Racists Nazis that elected Trump, elected Obama...twice.

Basic premise of your article: False.

Try again.


80 posted on 12/10/2017 3:09:00 PM PST by JPJones (Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
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