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....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
The only insane thing about this article is Amanda Marcotte and Salon.
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.
The crazier Obama becomes, the more desperate libs are to call his opposites crazy.
One can only hope that LIBs lose going forward. They are insufferable when they have positions of influence, power or authority.
You can smell the stench of the liberals’ fear. Good.
Amanda Marcotte crawled over the gate of her "safe space"!
The Horror! The Horror!
That face...
Fun to watch a liberal hack sputter with helpless rage.
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.
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.
Best observation yet
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.
Sadly, not even standing in the middle of gibbering imbeciles could not make Amanda look sensible.
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.
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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.
Salon is over edge.
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.
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!
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