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ArtTownsend

(439 posts)
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 02:53 AM Feb 2020

Of Trump's many bad legacies, the one that scares me most is presidential blessing of RW terrorism.

And that right-wing terrorism is not going away regardless of whether Trump is re-elected or not.

Remember Charlottesville. Remember Christchurch. Remember El Paso. Remember Squirrel Hill. And so on...

Trump already has gazillions of rotten, evil, disgraceful, damaging-beyond-repair aspects of his legacy - had them before he was even the Republican nominee, even before he ran (Birtherism, anyone?) - but encouraging white supremacist violence and hate crimes of all sorts has got to rank as one one of the worst, even by his lowlife standards.

Will we ever recover?

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Of Trump's many bad legacies, the one that scares me most is presidential blessing of RW terrorism. (Original Post) ArtTownsend Feb 2020 OP
- but one of the basic quotes are not really correct. TomVilmer Feb 2020 #1
Putting the children of Latin America in cages is right up there with that malaise Feb 2020 #2
Yup! Pure right-wing terrorizing of children and families. ArtTownsend Feb 2020 #3

TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)
1. - but one of the basic quotes are not really correct.
Mon Feb 17, 2020, 06:29 AM
Feb 2020

I never understood why anybody could like an obvious bully as Donald Trump, but I am also quite fond of truthful reporting. And I get so tired of the talking point about Trump praising white supremacists with the comment about "very fine people on both sides". Because his next sentence was: "The neo-Nazis and the white nationalists ... should be condemned totally."

And yes, it can be read in many ways, but this will only resonate positively among them of us who are already convinced. This will be seen as a false criticism which is easily debunked, and will only show his voters that all resistance are lies. Trump has both before and after this given power to white supremacists in so many other ways, so please chose a better line!

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