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Tommy_Carcetti

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11. Do you actually blame the media though?
Fri Jan 22, 2016, 05:03 PM
Jan 2016

I mean, the guy retweeted a message from a Twitter user whose handle was "White Genocide". You don't even have to go into the Twitter account to know that there's going to be some nasty stuff in there.

If Donald Trump was polling at 2% it might be another story. But we are talking about a guy who's the leading candidate for the nomination of one of the two major political parties in this country.

And what's happened here isn't necessarily indicative that Donald Trump is a neo-Nazi or supports the theory of White Genocide, but rather that he's such an ego-driven narcissist that any sort of attention or adulation from any source, no matter how repugnant, will be trumpted as a positive thing.

And that's a newsworthy phenomenon in my opinion.

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