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20. Important call-out
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 09:39 AM
Mar 2016

Your point re: hostility here to our own candidates versus to Trump is probably the most vital and prescient statement I've read in a long time.

I don't post much, but I have been around DU for a long, long time- and I can't remember this level of sustained internal vitriol in any election past. If the climate within DU is representative of the Democratic perspective on the whole, we are in trouble as a party and as a nation, because we are fighting each other instead of him.

One of the things I love about politics is the passion it ignites, but this primary is so emotional, so viscerally intense that I fear the effects will still linger for the general, leaving us powerless to address the hate-machine that is Trump. GOP may have created Trump- but if he gets into office because we can't band together to defeat him, history will place the blame on the divided blue for his election.

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