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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump tells crowd in Virginia that "we are going to take our country back".
What does he mean by that?
Is he going to get black folks to help him do that?
I have never been able to understand what they mean when they say they are "going to take our country back"??
Back to 1930?
What?
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Trump tells crowd in Virginia that "we are going to take our country back". (Original Post)
kentuck
Aug 2016
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. Back to a US that never was, except in country music videos and movies.
But it is an appealing fiction for many.
Oh, recommended.
madaboutharry
(40,234 posts)2. I think they mean 1830.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)3. it's not a dog whistle
Time to take back America, Vice President Joe Biden, September 2014 Labor Day speech in Detroit.
Our conservative convictions will win this country back if our tone shows that were comfortable with our own ideas, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaking to Christian conservatives in June 2013 in Washington.
Its time to take our country back, 2008 vice presidential Republican nominee Sarah Palin, at the 2010 Iowa Republican Party Reagan Day Dinner.
My friends, it is time to take back the country we love, Hillary Clinton, Aug. 26, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention.
This is the year we take our country back, Al Franken, then a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, in October 2008.
Looks like folks are ready to take back America, take it back. . . . Its going to be because of you that we take our country back, then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, addressing the Take Back America 2007 conference.
Today, we stand in common purpose to take our country back! Howard Dean, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2003, declared at an event. He later wrote a book titled You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article24782779.html#storylink=cpy
Our conservative convictions will win this country back if our tone shows that were comfortable with our own ideas, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaking to Christian conservatives in June 2013 in Washington.
Its time to take our country back, 2008 vice presidential Republican nominee Sarah Palin, at the 2010 Iowa Republican Party Reagan Day Dinner.
My friends, it is time to take back the country we love, Hillary Clinton, Aug. 26, 2008, at the Democratic National Convention.
This is the year we take our country back, Al Franken, then a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, in October 2008.
Looks like folks are ready to take back America, take it back. . . . Its going to be because of you that we take our country back, then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, addressing the Take Back America 2007 conference.
Today, we stand in common purpose to take our country back! Howard Dean, a Democratic presidential candidate in 2003, declared at an event. He later wrote a book titled You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article24782779.html#storylink=cpy
kentuck
(111,110 posts)6. Somehow....
I think Trump means something different when he says it.
Arkansas Granny
(31,535 posts)4. I always wonder who has it now. He never specifies.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)5. He means that the USA will have a white man for President again. I thought that everyone knew that.
It is particularly tailored to fit bi-racial Obama and female Clinton. The stupid cap means the same thing.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)7. ^^^^THIS^^^^
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)8. The only thing he'll "take" will be a solid defeat.
And he knows it.