Donald Trump's sanity is not the question. The real issue is how he got into office

[arenean]

From Gary Younge in The Guardian:

Donald Trump’s sanity is not the question. The real issue is how he got into office

The president is an emblem of free-market, white supremacist nationalism. And it won the election.


Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/18/donald-trump-sanity-free-market-white-supremacist-nationalism

[Shanti Mama]

1. This is a must read

How did he come to be in the office? He represents the worst in us and one great support.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. They've been setting this up for 40 years, if not 50

It didn't just happen. They opposed Democrats and pushed their own power at every turn. Finally they saw a path to having it all. It was a march to the right. Talk radio, media conglomeration, state level party hacks, voter apathy, religious right and pulpit fascism - they had every lever figured out.

The question is how do you get them out of there.

[orangecrush]

3. +1

[lagomorph777]

9. It's OK to oppose Democrats. It's not OK to oppose democracy.

And THAT is what they've been doing for 50 years.

[Boomer]

4. I've always said...

Trump is not the problem, he's the symptom.

[Doc_Technical]

5. Donald Trump is not the issue,

it's the hate filled dunderheads who voted for him;
and people removed from voter rolls,
and the gerrymandered districts,
and the long lines waiting to vote in certain neighborhoods,
and denying out of state students the vote,
and.......

[djacq]

6. Trumpism real remain long after he's gone.

Very sad.

[democrank]

7. We should think long and hard about this.

How did Trump get elected? Why does he still have the support of roughly 35%-38% of Americans?


Trump didn’t just screw up a little bit, he tore up our institutions, ignored laws, rejected the Constitution, promoted White Nationalism, chose the least qualified for most positions, betrayed our troops, shamed us every time he spoke, practiced nepotism on steroids, on and on....

The United States of America is holding children in cages. Imagine.

Why did this happen, and how? I believe it happened little by little by little. We overlooked a lot. We accepted things we never should have, or at least didn’t raise our voices enough. Racism, gun violence, homelessness, economic inequality, and more. For-profit prisons, crumbling infrastructure, obscenely overpriced health care system. We got coarsened. Some of us gave up.
Folks I know have had enough and are demanding system-wide changes.....not back to yesterday or 1955, but a complete overhaul.

[lagomorph777]

8. "won the election"

False. Putin installed Pres. Turd.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. But a third of the nation still supports him

And that's a separate problem from how he got into the White House.

[lagomorph777]

11. I really don't care about the Despicables; do U?

They will get theirs after we push out their Dear Leader.