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For those who’re hewing to the fiscal side of the election more than the social:
“This
morning, Moody’s Analytics released a report concluding that Clinton’s
economic plan would create 3.2 million jobs and accelerate growth of the
nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). By contrast, earlier this month,
a similar (albeit contested) Moody’s analysis of Trump’s economic plan
estimated that it would reduce employment (by about 3.5 million jobs),
reduce economic output, and prompt a painful recession.”
donald trump supporters like the 70-year-old because he “has no filter.”
in exit poll after exit poll, republican primary voters have cited trump’s willingness to “tell it like it is” as a major reason — if not the predominant reason — why they voted for him.
what this actually seems to mean is that they appreciate his willingness to insult and degrade minorities without fear of reprisal.
he is not “telling it like it is.“
that would imply truthfulness — and require him to admit that violent crime rates are still lower than they’ve been in decades
that black people are not the biggest perpetrators of homicide against whites
that most undocumented mexican immigrants are not, in fact, rapists
and that islam — a religion that comprises 1.6 billion people worldwide — is not an existential threat to the u.s.
but that is not what trump and his supporters want.
they want carte blanche to express their bigotry without consequences, plain and simple.
and on july 21, when trump accepted the presidential nomination, the republicans made him the face of their party.
Trevor compares Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s accomplishments.
jifty: I want to be convinced, I really do, but I just see as much danger, long term, with voting for Hillary. If we give in to the guilt trips and fear-mongering, we are sending them the message that their tactics work. That they can abuse us and silence us and we'll still fall in line. That all they have to do is hold up a right-wing boogieman and we'll come to heel. If we vote for her without any real change in the way things are run, liberals will be no better off in 2020. Convince me, please.
If it was anyone other than Trump, I’d agree with you. Trump is that dangerous, and the movement he is leading is that destructive.
Someone who is a GOP writer, I forget who, said something like, “Hillary is wrong about everything, but she’s wrong within acceptable parameters. Trump is wrong about everything and truly dangerous.”
Now, I don’t agree that she’s wrong about everything, but she’s wrong about some things that are important, like Iraq and her embrace of neoconservative foreign policy.
But Trump is a clear and real threat to America and the world in a way we haven’t seen in almost 100 years.
This isn’t about tactics and rewarding a system that is gross and really needs to be changed. This is about stopping not just Donald Trump, but all the white supremacists and radical right wing nationalists he’s leading.
And remember that we can still exert influence in Congress, and at the state and local level.
And and AND remember that Reagan inflicted Scalia on us for OVER THIRTY YEARS. Who the hell knows what kind of whackjob Tump and Pence would nominate to SCOTUS? I doubt Clinton will nominate someone who is liberal enough for me, but I know with absolute certainty that she will nominate justices who won’t be a catastrophic nightmare.
This election is about so much more than Clinton vs. Trump. This is about what we want America to be, and who we want to lead it. We don’t have the luxury of waxing philosophical about tactics and sending messages. We must defeat and destroy Donald Trump and the movement he leads.
