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(Eric the Red) Holder: ‘Make America Great’ mindset flawed, rooted in fear
The Hill ^ | 09/16/18 08:44 AM EDT | MICHAEL BURKE

Posted on 09/16/2018 9:13:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said late Saturday that the "Make America Great Again mindset" is flawed and "rooted in fear."

“This sort of thinking, this 'Make America Great' mindset is not only flawed, it’s rooted in fear. And it favors an imagined past over a realistic future," Holder said while speaking at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner.

Holder also questioned what time period people who want to "make America great again" would rewind to if given the chance, referring to President Trump's campaign slogan.

ADVERTISEMENT “Certainly it was not when people were enslaved,” he said. “Certainly it was not when segregation was the law of the land. Certainly it was not when women were disenfranchised. Certainly it was not when the LGBT community was routinely stigmatized.”

Holder has said he is considering running for the presidency in 2020. He served as attorney general from 2009-2015 under President Obama and currently runs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, an organization he created that encourages pro-Democratic redrawings of congressional districts.

Holder on Saturday also encouraged people to vote in the November midterm elections

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2018midterms; holder; holder2020; holderspeech; maga
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Eric just fears he'll be headed to GTMO for the rest of his natural life.
1 posted on 09/16/2018 9:13:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It would be great to hear what women voting has allegedly improved.


2 posted on 09/16/2018 9:18:35 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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Ghostwritten by Obama? It’s the same tone as the “bitter clingers” speech, and there’s a whole cornfield of strawmen, which was one of Obama’s rhetorical hallmarks.


3 posted on 09/16/2018 9:18:39 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I feel that I am an American. Therefore, any attempt to make America Great Again would likely benefit me, so I support such things.

Eric and his friends obviously do not consider themselves to be Americans. They are something different. Citizens of the world, perhaps? In any case, any effort to Make America Great Again obviously feels like a threat to Eric and his friends.


4 posted on 09/16/2018 9:18:47 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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The “realistic future” the left envisions is poverty and oppression. Obama said it was the normal and we had to just accept it.


5 posted on 09/16/2018 9:19:08 AM PDT by Spok ( Findings)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Holder’s campaign slogan for President in 2020 will be ‘Make America Mediocre’.


6 posted on 09/16/2018 9:19:44 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

b o’s puppet echoing his master.


7 posted on 09/16/2018 9:20:15 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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Certainly it was not when people were enslaved,” he said. “Certainly it was not when segregation was the law of the land. Certainly it was not when women were disenfranchised.

And at least two out of three of those problems were resolved by Republicans, you moron.

8 posted on 09/16/2018 9:24:06 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Architect of Avalon

How Dramatically Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

75 Pages Posted: 15 Apr 1999
John R. Lott
Crime Prevention Research Center

Date Written: September 1998

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=160530


9 posted on 09/16/2018 9:24:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Science is a method, not a belief system.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

http://johnrlott.tripod.com/op-eds/WashTimesWomensSuff112707.html


10 posted on 09/16/2018 9:26:21 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Science is a method, not a belief system.)
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I prefer MAGA to the Far Left’s let’s all subside into the cesspool of our worst excesses.


11 posted on 09/16/2018 9:28:50 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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it favors an imagined past over a realistic future,"

Absolutely not. The economic engine of the United States has been well documented, whose declined was precipitated by government regulations. What is imagined is that the message contains racist intents, and only because it serves the purposes of those detracting with that accusation.

As regulations are removed from companies we see the economic powerhouse of days gone by returning and benefiting all people involved without concern for their personal identity. That's a reality, and the future only promises greater economic heights.

12 posted on 09/16/2018 9:28:56 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Women want money from men and if they can’t get it directly they’ll take it funneled through government.


13 posted on 09/16/2018 9:31:52 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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Eric speaks to those who are less than equal but bitch and moan and whine to bring their betters down


14 posted on 09/16/2018 9:33:30 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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“Certainly it was not when the LGBT community was routinely stigmatized.”

Yes, America was certainly a greater nation when those enslaved in vile passions were ashamed of this, and these activities were shunned by society rather than paraded, celebrated, and forced upon people.

America was greater before the sexual revolution—back when families of all ethnic makeups stayed together and prayed together.

America was greater when millions were not killing their babies in the name of “choice”.

America was greater when we did our part to defeat Hitler... before Operation Paperclip and the ratlines embedded NAZI war criminals and their disciples within our political, judicial, educational, entertainment, law enforcement, military, and corporate systems.

America was never morally worse than it was under Obama. And America might become great again, but she has not repented as a nation and will never be great again unless she does.


15 posted on 09/16/2018 9:46:14 AM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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“speaking at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner.”

I guess his accomplishment that qualified him to speak here was allowing hundreds of untraceable guns to flow into Mexico causing many deaths including a US Border Agent.


16 posted on 09/16/2018 9:50:13 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Holder is using the same tired canards that his camp has been employing for decades.

He doesn't see how most Americans are wise to his act and aren't buying it anymore.

If it were to so come to pass, Holder and Obama and Hillary would still be ranting "LGBT racism handmaids" ad nauseum right up to their being thrown against the wall.

17 posted on 09/16/2018 9:54:15 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
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Holder also questioned what time period people who want to "make America great again" would rewind to...

1990 works

18 posted on 09/16/2018 9:54:31 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Certainly it was not when people were enslaved,” he said. “Certainly it was not when segregation was the law of the land. Certainly it was not when women were disenfranchised.

And who was a fault for that, Mr. Holder? Oh yeah, the Democrats. And who put a stop to that? Oh yeah...the rise of the Republican Party.

Certainly it was not when the LGBT community was routinely stigmatized.”

Define "stigmatized"? You mean not being able to force people to participate who don't want to? More like those who disagree are being stigmatized and if you recognize the reality of biology, that is now called "hate."

19 posted on 09/16/2018 10:02:24 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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JAILBIRDS 2018
20 posted on 09/16/2018 10:10:03 AM PDT by FrankR (IF it wasn't for the "F-word", and it's deritiives, the left would have no message at all.)
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