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Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts) Fri Feb 23, 2018, 06:29 PM Feb 2018

Every single what we call "deplorable" was ANTI Russian, ANTI Vladimir Putin [View all]

before Trump wasn't.

What changed?

Our intelligence community's opinion of Putin being a murderous dictator determined to destroy our country, didn't change...

Putin's own actions of murder and destroying democracies wherever he could didn't change...

What changed?

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Every single what we call "deplorable" was ANTI Russian, ANTI Vladimir Putin [View all] Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 OP

A cult follows its leader. Even unto drinking the literal and figurative Kool-Aid. marybourg Feb 2018 #1

This is the fundamental thing we need to know about them. Once we understand this, everything Squinch Feb 2018 #2

This is probably the best analysis I have seen. marked50 Feb 2018 #6

Yes. And they adopt those opinions because those opinions soothe their feelings of inferiority. Squinch Feb 2018 #7

That is what a cult does world wide wally Feb 2018 #3

ANTI Russian, ANTI Vladimir Putin mitch96 Feb 2018 #4

Sure it is a given these deplorables are against the adults in the room, but they were also Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #5

sometimes it feels like I'm in a bad dream... mitch96 Feb 2018 #8

Some interesting analyses.... Gabi Hayes Feb 2018 #9