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ANALYSIS: Why Trump’s remarks about times 'changing back' are troubling (Boo-hoo, MAGA is racist)
ABC News ^
| October 13, 2017
| Amna Nawaz
Posted on 10/13/2017 4:15:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Candidate Donald Trump got to the highest office in the land with a line that inspired millions of Americans: Make America Great Again. Those four words, Trump once said, came to him as he pondered our nations problems. He trademarked it. He put it on hats. He ran on it. And among his supporters, it sparked a hope that our country could return to a time when life was better for them.
But among some of his detractors, that phrase felt like a shot across the bow. It roused no sentimentality, nor hope for a better future. Because the last word of that simple sentence carried with it the full weight of our countrys past, a past in which not everyone enjoyed equal rights, nor equal access to opportunity, nor equal protection under the law. A past riddled with moments of discrimination and oppression and outright crimes against humanity -- moments that resonate more deeply with the American communities they impacted, and ultimately, in part, defined.
The question for this group of Americans wasnt, How can we make our country great again? as much as it was, Why would you want to turn back the clock?
Today, President Trump became the first sitting president to address the Values Voter Summit....
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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: blacks; boogedyboogedy; maga; trump; valuevoters
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s our country.
We have a right to be proud of it.
We have a right to keep it.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:16:58 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump wants to move America Forward, unlike the retrograde National Socialist / International Commie ‘Rat Party.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:20:49 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just repairing 8 years of damage by Obunghole.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:20:56 PM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
MAGA!!!
MAGA!!!
I’m dark-skinned Hispanic, am I a crackah?!?
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:21:02 PM PDT
by
RooRoobird20
("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, bammy wanted to begin transforming America from what it was. This view celebrated black lives matter, more government, racial animosity, the devaluation of Christianity, the downsizing of our military etc.
Trump wants to undo that and put things back together.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:23:23 PM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thanks Amna Nawaz for your “analysis”, emphasis on the anal.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:23:44 PM PDT
by
rainee
(Her)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why would you want to turn back the clock?
Why? Because Obama's
new normal was not up to par with what the United States of America is, was, could be again.
Recent headlines, just this week:
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:25:55 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Making America great again means rolling back the obscene expansions of government which have occurred since Ronald Reagan left office.
The problem is government versus the American people.
ABC knows this, but is decidedly on the side of Big Government.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:29:53 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Actually, not a badly written column. She manages to keep her viewpoint suppressed below the level of blatant manipulation one has come to expect from journalism.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:30:55 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
To: RooRoobird20
I’m dark-skinned Hispanic, am I a crackah?!? Yep; sure are. At least according to the scientists and genealogy experts of the world.
If you asked someone in the hood or barrio you might get a different answer.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:32:05 PM PDT
by
Boomer
(The dem party has become the North Korea of American politics; unreasonable, dictatorial, fascist.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why weren't your knickers in a twist in 1991?
To: DoodleBob
To: RooRoobird20
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:45:28 PM PDT
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why would you want to turn back the clock?
Because the power elite have become conceited, arrogant, destructive, immoral, and are pursuing policies to enrich themselves and destroy the very fabric of the Constitution.
That was not hard.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:45:49 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
<< Why would you want to turn back the clock? >>
That a trick question?
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:47:29 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
To: RooRoobird20
Im dark-skinned Hispanic, am I a crackah?!?
Actual skin color or ethnicity mean little to progressives. What matters is your political reliability.
Remember, dark skinned Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is not a real black man.
He cannot be, by “progressive” definition. He is not promoting leftist policies.
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:48:56 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The answer to these idiotic questions is that Obama’s stated goal was the fundamental transformation of America. The liberal media are silent about this. Trump’s MAGA campaign is the reversal, the exact opposite, of what Obama nearly succeeded at accomplishing. America rejected Obama’s foray snd elected Trump, and the liberals still cannot accept that.
To: sparklite2
Author Amna Nawaz Khan Biography:
Born: Karachi, Pakistan
Residence: Karachi, Pakistan
Nationality: Pakistani
Occupation: Television director, producer
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posted on
10/13/2017 4:53:54 PM PDT
by
Reeses
(A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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