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2016 Postmortem

RBInMaine

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3. You are reading WAY too much into this and being WAY too simplistic here.

Reply to George Eliot (Original post)

Sun Sep 18, 2016, 01:49 PM

Sep 2016

Slicing, dicing, and oversimplifying over Chuck Todd and Maureen Dowd? Seriously? C'mon.

Please, stop obsessing on this talking head bla bla bla stuff and just go out and do everything you can to make sure Trump doesn't get near the White House.

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To Elite: 'I'm the only thing standing between you and the abyss." Transcript MTP [View all] George Eliot Sep 2016 OP

Not all the so-called elites are idiots radical noodle Sep 2016 #1

Consider the sources. ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2016 #2

You are reading WAY too much into this and being WAY too simplistic here. RBInMaine Sep 2016 #3

Trump is not 'one of the elites.' He is a singularity. pangaia Sep 2016 #4

+1 Hekate Sep 2016 #5

It's similar to how both elites and the poor don't particularly want an asteroid to hit the earth. Zynx Sep 2016 #6

For the moneyed, elite class, Trump is a loose cannon. MineralMan Sep 2016 #7

If you have a lot of money invested in the market, Trump should scare the hell out of you. sarcasmo Sep 2016 #8

I don't think you should necessarily interpret "elites" as the Kochs and Waltons in this context. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2016 #9

Don't forget Hillary 2 weeks off in August fundraising and the last OnDoutside Sep 2016 #10

Chuck and Maureen ... GeorgeGist Sep 2016 #11

Wrongheaded analysis. Millennial voters weren't her strong suit ever- and the UWS elites are the bettyellen Sep 2016 #12

Interesting you side-stepped the question of millennials. George Eliot Sep 2016 #13

Trump is a mortal threat to the republic and our way of life. DemocratSinceBirth Sep 2016 #14

MoDo is a Clinton hater, Chuck is a false equivalency pundit. radius777 Sep 2016 #15