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 presidents 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 Americas 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 demagogues victory to motives as innocent as economic anxiety, or even to his opponents failures of empathy. As if Republican voters decision to rally behind a self-professed pussy-grabber had somehow discredited Hillary Clintons 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 GOPs appeal. Now, the party had traded its dog whistle for a foghorn; self deportation for a Muslim ban; and the patriarchys 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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Thanks 2ndDivisionVet. Yet another regurgitation of DNC talking points, but yet another Partisan Media Shill.
“To make transformative change in the long term, progressive activists and intellectuals might well need to awaken their fellow citizens to the ubiquity of white revanchism in American politics while also expanding the popular definition of racism, so as to stigmatize forms of political behavior that indirectly perpetuate racial inequity.”
Okay, if you say so.
The only people I’ve ever met who used the word “revanchism” were old line Soviet commies.
Proof That Donald Trump Does Not Assault Women (must listen)Its offensive to have to direct a woman to that link - which is to a video narrated by a woman - and I shouldnt have to do it. But if youre a woman who believes the above claptrap as written, blame Hillary for making sure that Trumps private, off-the-record comments to another man was broadcast and mischaracterized. The link delves into precisely what Trump did, and did not, say.
There is no implication here that Trumps comments to Billy Bush were laudable - but Trump was not guilty as charged. And Hillarys supporters are guilty of lying about it, aggressively.
Keep in mind that Trump was a Democrat when he made the comment about grabbing, and we all know how the Democrats are preoccupied with sex.
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