Russia and our election

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(07-10-2017, 05:01 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I looked it up on wikipedia, and if that's accurate, then no way.  The vast majority of people are not white supremacists.

Alright alright, I retract my comment. The counterarguments are overwhelming. I never meant to equate alt-right with white supremacists, though. But the terminology doesn't fit to what I was getting at.

(07-10-2017, 04:07 PM)Dill Wrote: Last month I spent a week in rural Texas with my cousins (15 in number) who range in age from 54-72. 11 of that group voted for Trump, as did their spouses. I'm pretty sure none is alt-right.

What I was getting at was just that say more extreme movements have an easier way to power when half the country is apolitical. And those who aren't are so strongly bound to one side that they won't reject those more extreme movements. Which in a sense does make those republicans and nolens volens Trump supporters complicit to the rise of the alt-right. In a sense.