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2016 Postmortem

stone space

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5. It hard to combine that with anything. It's so loud and outshines everything else.

Reply to DanTex (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 07:27 PM

Dec 2016

He'd have to talk about shooting somebody on 5th Avenue or the potential assassination of another candidate to be heard above all that.

Economic message?

Yeah, right!

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Trump ran on the most explicit right-wing economic platform we've seen in a long time. [View all] DanTex Dec 2016 OP

He ran on misogyny, racism, and xenophobia, and gundamentalism. (nt) stone space Dec 2016 #1

Of course. But he definitely didn't combine that with a progressive economic platform. DanTex Dec 2016 #3

Didn't need to ...Trump voters wanted the open bigotry at any cost lunasun Dec 2016 #4

It hard to combine that with anything. It's so loud and outshines everything else. stone space Dec 2016 #5

US United Stupidity! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2016 #2