Posted on 12/12/2019 11:25:37 AM PST by C19fan
Back when Donald Trump was running for president and Republicans were still capable of feeling politically ashamed a conservative friend made what was, to my mind, the decisive case against voting for him.
No, a ballot for Trump did not automatically mean that his voters shared his bigotries. Nor did it necessarily mean that they werent embarrassed by them.
It just meant that those bigotries werent deal-breakers. If their candidate was a birther, they could live with it. If he thought celebrity was a license for sexual predation, they could live with it. If he wanted to impose a religious test on immigrants; or discredit a judge on account of his ethnic background; or characterize the bulk of Mexican immigrants as rapists that may all have been very unfortunate.
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NYT trying to interfere/influence a foreign election? Why don’t they respect the UK’s fair and free elections?
“”””Back when Donald Trump was running for president and Republicans were still capable of feeling politically ashamed a conservative friend made what was, to my mind, the decisive case against voting for him.
No, a ballot for Trump did not automatically mean that his voters shared his bigotries. Nor did it necessarily mean that they werent embarrassed by them.”””
Good old New York Times cannot resist every opportunity to bash Trump.
I believe this opening is called ‘grasping at straws’.
Got crushed. Marxism is deas in England and Whales
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