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Proud Public Servant

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12. This. This is what people here don't get.

Thu Aug 27, 2015, 10:53 PM

Aug 2015

Trump is tapping into a rich vein of anger and resentment that demonizes wealthy elites and politicians as much as immigrants and people of color (and, not coincidently, sees teh Democratic party in particular as an alliance of wealthy elites with immigrants and people of color, which is why they would never vote Dem in spite of tehir class position). It's the same bouquet of resentments that animated the Know-Nothings just before the Civil War and the Populists a half-century later. This is going to play very well for him

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Daily Kos: The Real Fireworks Are About To Begin (Trump Gone Mad?) [View all] Trajan Aug 2015 OP

I trust Trump as far as I can throw Chris Christie. trumad Aug 2015 #1

That may be true .. absolutely Trajan Aug 2015 #2

Nice retort! Lucky Luciano Aug 2015 #7

Close don't count except with horseshoes and flinging feces. And he is flinging every which way. nt Xipe Totec Aug 2015 #3

Well .. what I find fascinating .. Trajan Aug 2015 #4

This will get interesting. silverweb Aug 2015 #5

The chamber of commerce crowd already hates him, because the status quo with undocumented Warren DeMontague Aug 2015 #6

He can say whatever he wants madville Aug 2015 #8

Maybe he should run as a Democrat! Binkie The Clown Aug 2015 #9

Often it is bigotry (against minorities, women, and LGBT people that leads RWers to vote against the tblue37 Aug 2015 #10

This. This is what people here don't get. Proud Public Servant Aug 2015 #12

Woulden't it be funny if Trump was always a raging liberal and he pulled this off Quixote1818 Aug 2015 #11