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4. Trump won because a lot of people who distrusted/disliked him thought

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 12:55 PM

Jan 2017

it was worth the gamble to have him shake things up.

It wouldn't take but 5% of his voters to become disgruntled and he'd be toast in 2020.

In terms of the larger picture, there's no such thing as American values, and it doesn't mean anything to be an American anymore. But we have to peddle that bullshit to win elections, so we need to run candidates who actually believe it enough to sell it convincingly.

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What happens to a nation when its founding myth is shattered? DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2017 #5

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