Who Are We Americans Now? And who will we become under Trump? (From the Left)

The American Prospect ^ | December 19, 2016 | Paul Starr

[2ndDivisionVet]

Paul Starr is co-founder and co-editor of the The American Prospect. and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Bancroft Prize in American history, he is the author of seven books, including most recently Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Heath Care Reform (Yale University Press, revised ed. 2013).

[econjack]

Paul Starr is [also] co-founder of The American Prospect, a notable liberal magazine which was created in 1990.

Just so you don't think you're reading fake news.

[DesertRhino]

That’s not who we are,”

That was always so obnoxious. Like he has any clue who we are. He never saw the mainland until age 18.

[CheneyClone]

Still blaming the Russians. How utterly clueless.

[2banana]

Same old talking points.

They have learned nothing.

[hal ogen]

I cannot bring my self to read what these lunatics write.

[dp0622]

Perhaps the American people were willing to judge a man by the content of his character rather than the color of his skin...

I had to stop there. Don’t want to be sick on New Year’s Eve.

I NEVER occurs to me that my vote should swing either way because our candidate is a woman, man, black, white, asian, a midget (well maybe not a midget)...

That’s what dems do. It’s called projection. And boy do they project!!

[Grampa Dave]

Adios/Goodbye ObozoCountdown

[Mr. K]

These people are going to be so surprised when 4 years from now we are NOT all wearing robes with pointy hats and worshiping satan

[CodeToad]

[gunsequalfreedom]

“That’s not who we are,” Barack Obama often says.

But it is who we are. It is not what he is but it is who we are.

Hopefully the damage Obama has done can be undone. Surely we would have ended up like Germany if Hillary (Merkel) Clinton had been elected.

[Zuse]

“He never saw the mainland until age 18.”

And even then foreign student B0Stevedunhambarrysoetorobathhousebarryhusseinsoebarkah saw “The Mainland” as an evil racist supremacist colonial power bent on worldwide economic and cultural domination.

[BenLurkin]

Liberals are not Americans.

By choosing to side with, and advance, a plethora of un-American causes and policies, they consciously forswore any claim to be called Americans.

[Paladin2]

This guy sounds like an extremist wacko way to the left of the mainstream.

[freedumb2003]

>>It would be easier to make sense of Trump’s victory if Obama had become unpopular and the voters were repudiating his administration. As of November, however, Obama enjoyed a healthy approval rating. <<

From this sentence onward it goes downhill. These idiots don’t see that obozo’s approval rating is as suspect as 11/7 polling data: people LIE to pollsters so they give the “correct” answer. obozo probably has a real approval rating of about 25% but people don’t dare, even anonymously, take the chance of being called racist.

The reality is the Trump election is a 100% repudiation of the most failed administration in American history.

The rest of the article goes on to basically say Americans are a bunch of selfish white racists.

Many, many words with little intellectual content.

[lgjhn23]

“...By choosing to side with, and advance, a plethora of un-American causes and policies, they consciously forswore any claim to be called Americans...”

With that being said, they enemies of the state and should be summarily dealt with in the appropriate manner. Since we don’t want to spend the money to keep em locked up the rest of their miserable traitorous lives. We can’t hang em, electrocute em or shoot em nowadays, so let’s just OD em with some really, really good drugs. Let em have that one good last “high” till they’re gone. Even that is too good for em, but I’m willing to compromise as long as the same end result is achieved.

[samantha]

The basic characteristic of both female and male liberals is their inability to ever grow up,mature in any way with the exception of their physical being,and aging.

[kaehurowing]

That was always so obnoxious. Like he has any clue who we are. He never saw the mainland until age 18.

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I will be so happy to stop hearing that fake black accent he taught himself in college. It just became more and more grating as he pretends to be an American black.

[Grimmy]

To paraphrase that Macedonian dude:

“A good foreigner is an American. A bad American is a foreigner.”

The scumbags that the author self-identifies with are bad Americans.

[T. P. Pole]

It is amazing to me that someone who can write in a mostly clear and coherent manner, demonstrating some level of intelligence, can still be so wrong in his data and conclusions.