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DT Is Who America Is (Original Post) SoCalDavidS Nov 2024 OP
More accurately, he's who about half of America is. TwilightZone Nov 2024 #1
Semantics SoCalDavidS Nov 2024 #2
That's a poor analogy. TwilightZone Nov 2024 #3
The Ones Who Did Were Likely Handled SoCalDavidS Nov 2024 #4

TwilightZone

(28,836 posts)
1. More accurately, he's who about half of America is.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 12:23 PM
Nov 2024

Probably less than that, since people have a variety of reasons for voting for someone, but regardless of that, he doesn't represent our half of the equation.

 

SoCalDavidS

(10,599 posts)
2. Semantics
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 12:27 PM
Nov 2024

There were also good Germans in the 1930’s. I imagine there are lots of good Gazans who oppose Hamas. To the world, and for all intents and purposes, this is who we are.

TwilightZone

(28,836 posts)
3. That's a poor analogy.
Wed Nov 6, 2024, 12:30 PM
Nov 2024

We on the left did everything we could to ensure that he not regain power, in the only realistic way in which we could have done so.

Good Germans were not actively opposing anything.

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