Originally Posted by pdx rick
Originally Posted by CPWILL
[... if you like Trump, well, keep doing what got you Trump. If you don't like Trump, maybe reconsider your preference for looking down on the Other. smile It is, after all, a form of bigotry, and it harms your ability to come to rational conclusions flowing from intellectual empathy. People are capable of disagreeing - even strongly! - from good intentions wink.
Fear of America becoming more brown gave us Trump. I have no problem with the browning of America. smile

No, that is the fairy tale that people on the left tell themselves so that they can feel morally superior. It has the effect of causing people on the right to utterly dismiss them when they talk about race, and it has the effect of immunizing actual racists such as the current White House occupant to the charge.

Trump didn't get elected Because Yay Racism (though I'm curious as to why you think so many of his voters, being so afraid of brown people, voted for Obama), he got elected because to enough people in the right places, he was less-awful than Hillary. There are a couple of key drivers of that, and one of them is definitely that the charge of racism was laughingly dismissed where it wasn't considered a badge of honor because they saw that the left liked to claim that anything the left didn't like was racist (for example: See, Above), and so the charge of "racism" was instead interpreted to mean "Democrats are afraid of him because he's a conservative".

You are conflating opposition to your means with the antithesis of your ends.

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Trump is a one-term president. If the Republican Party can't do their job in the next few weeks and remove Trump, the American people will in November 2020.

Maybe they will. Personally, I think his behavior warrants impeachment, but don't think he'll be removed. As for 2020, well, the key question there (as in 2016) will be who the Democrats nominate to oppose him.

Last edited by CPWILL; 01/21/20 03:28 AM.
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