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Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts) Fri Mar 4, 2016, 10:44 AM Mar 2016

Here's the Drumpf quote that sends a shiver down my spine: [View all]

(Unquestioned by anyone last night or by the talking heads this morning)

'I'm a leader, I've always been a leader. I've never had any problem leading people,' Trump insisted.

'If I say do it, they're going to do it. That's what leadership is all about.'

If this despotic, autocratic imbecile doesn't scare the bejeezus out of right-thinking people, then there's not much hope for the future of the US that I once knew.

(He's on every network screen as I speak, leading another of his 1930s, Nuremberg-style "rallies".)

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Here's the Drumpf quote that sends a shiver down my spine: [View all] Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 OP

I think that's his business side. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2016 #1

Yes, the sociopathic narcissist lording it over his sycophantic minions. Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #2

I loath Trump. earthside Mar 2016 #3

I am usually loathe to draw comparisons to anything Nazi, but the Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #4

Trump will never have the power that hitler had yeoman6987 Mar 2016 #5

While consolidating power in the 1930s, he merely demonized and scape-goated them. Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #9

It can't happen here. nt awoke_in_2003 Mar 2016 #12

as I have said before, he doesn't want to be president... Javaman Mar 2016 #6

I'm waiting for the jackboot transformation--as he consolidates his hold on the nomination. Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #10

Commander trump... lamp_shade Mar 2016 #7

His pouting, sucking-baby mouth gives me the willies. Surya Gayatri Mar 2016 #11

Candidates for president used to have, and be able to express, a vision for the country and how they Doctor_J Mar 2016 #8