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In reply to the discussion: Instead of winning over the 27% who voted for Trump, how about winning over the 40% who didn't vote? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)that has totally corrupted the thinking of most of the conservative electorate. Decades of swiftboating, smears, fake investigations, floods of old and new allegations whenever truth might possibly rise into view. Although being a woman headed for the presidency made H a central target, if she were not around, other Democrats would have become targets for opportunistic right-wing smears instead.
There's nothing accidental about this plot to divide, corrupt, neutralize the U.S. electorate. If they don't stop us, we will stop them.
Btw, everyone who wants to understand should read Jane Mayer's "Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right." https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Money-History-Billionaires-Radical/dp/0385535597/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480589085&sr=1-1&keywords=dark+money
It's much bigger than just attacks on H. They have been working--with appalling success--to make far right extremist thinking part of mainstream culture. Our universities now teach political, economic, and social doctrines that were once considered ridiculous, unworkable, immoral, not acceptable by respectable people.