10-26-2017, 11:17 AM
(10-26-2017, 11:04 AM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: When are people going to realize that it's not Trump or "Trumpism" as the OP puts it. No, it's Democrats and Republicans that are the problem and the same, tired rhetoric they trot out with the same tired people calling the majority of Americans stupid, racist, mysogenists, homophobes, communists, nazi, lazy and every other name or insult.
I know Christians voted for Trump to keep the Supreme Court center right and they voted for Pence, not Trump. I don't know about the rest of those who voted for him or why. I voted for Castle though and I did not want Trump to win, I don't like Trump at all.
All I know is that people voted for Trump because Hillary, that's it. The people who voted for him are willing to hold their nose for 4 to 8 years, keep the Supreme Court center right and then get a real leader in there after Trump. Hillary scared so many people, she's very shady and people just didn't trust her at all.
My opinion.
I think the issue with your response is that you are conflating voting for Trump with supporting Trumpism. Those are two different things (and the word choice of Trumpism isn't my own, it is used by Lowry in the piece I linked to). Just voting for him doesn't mean you adhere to the Trumpism that is shifting the party.
FWIW, I find it interesting that you say it is a response to the tired rhetoric of calling people all of these things when Trump engages in this sort of behavior all of the time. He's just not targeting the people that we're being targeted previously, and so there is a cognitive dissonance that exists because it isn't happening to them, and in fact many of his supporters applaud the behavior.
But your response is not one to the questions I posed, as Pat has already pointed out.
