Donald Trump pretty much just went Full Nazi

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No more or less than any other Presidential candidate.

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Asked by The Hill whether that would include American Muslims currently abroad, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks replied over email: “Mr. Trump says, ‘everyone.’ ”

What I love about that line is that it’s clear that the spokeswoman is disavowing this.

Interviewer: What do you mean “every Muslim?” How about American Muslims currently abroad?
Spokeswoman: [cups hand over phone] Donald? You don’t mean even American Muslims currently abroad, do you?
Trump, from toilet: Everyone!
Spokeswoman: Mr. Trump says, ‘everyone.’

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OK, but when politicians from both parties are actively carrying out the latest genocide in the Middle East, terms like “fascism” no longer mean what they used to, or they no longer provide the distinction that they used to. Trump is more crude than Obama but both of them, and their parties, are for perpetual war.

The sad thing is we all grew up learning about genocide and thinking how horrible it is, and that it demands drastic and immediate action, and yet you don’t really see so-called progressives doing anything serious about it. The anti-war movement died when Obama took office because progressives don’t care about perpetual war when it’s their guy doing it, and he’s black and much more polite than his GOP counterparts so that makes them feel warm and fuzzy about it.

All of the gasping and hands clasped over mouths from Democratic supporters is just part of the circus of hypocrisy that the so-called Democratic “alternative” really is.

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Which is why if you want an active anti-war movement and coverage of that movement from the media and support of that movement from your Democratic representative…you pretty much have to vote GOP for president.

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My recollection is that he pledged not to run as long as the GOP played fair with him. If “fair” is up to his interpretation then I guess anything’s possible…

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Father Coughlin…when did FDR give into him? He was a supporter of FDR’s until 1934, when he founded the National Union for Social Justice; one reason he withdrew his support was that FDR was too friendly with the (Jewish) bankers.

And the link below has a good summing-up of what the New Deal did and didn’t for women, African-Americans, and Mexican-Americans.

http://millercenter.org/president/biography/fdroosevelt-the-american-franchise

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Thanks for the link…

I think its’ less about specifically giving into him, and more about co-opting the populism that he fomented. A great book on the impact Couglin (and Huey Long) on New Deal policies, generally speaking, is Alan Brinkley’s Voice of Protest:

It does a good job of making that connection, I think.

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You can also read about Earl Warren’s enthusiastic implementation of this policy. And Earl Warren was a Republican.

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You mean like, how, if you want to undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment, you have to get cancer?!

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To give just one reason: when FDR came into office unemployment was 25% and getting worse rapidly, and by the end of his first term it was 16% and improving.

So really, he was effective at improving the lives of the voters.

I know, its hard to believe someone winning a series of elections on that basis these days.

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It’s more like if you get GWB thyroid cancer, the docs go all out with every treatment option, whereas if you get HRC stomach cancer, they say “what cancer? Ain’t no cancer 'round here…”

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The focus is on T-Rump but it ought to be on the people who support him. We are one sorry nation when that many people have become unmoored from reality (or decency).

And I have no sympathy for the GOP whose propaganda created just the sort of people who would support an idiot like T-Rump. After seeing Game Change I did actually have a tiny (tiny) amount of sympathy for Sarah Palin, who worked really hard to become exactly the kind of automaton the GOP wanted -and she was justifiably surprised that she was not taken seriously by the McCain campaign.

Hopefully the supreme court in the case it’s hearing today on Evenwel v. Abbott will not eventually hand the GOP the best tool for winning elections.

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I don’t know why he wants to ban all the Muslins. Surely they’ll be scared off by all the Mexican rapists.

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But it was through his political skills that he was able to improve the lives of his constituency.

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It’s called “Enhancing the Contradictions”.

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Okay, you and the reviews on Amazon got me. I hope his style’s engaging, lol.

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Next - Egyptian Cottons (to what I have no clue).

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Except, in your metaphor, the “chemotherapy” and “radiation treatment” would just enhance the cancer and make it drug-resistant.

The anti-war movement didn’t disappear because war stopped, it disappeared because a Democrat was doing it and not a Republican.

Obama intervened in Libya and Syria, he deployed special forces to 135 countries (a record), he escalated the drone bombings, there are still troops in Afghanistan, and Gitmo is still open. Most victims of the resulting violence are civilians.

Millions have died, and yet millions of progressives still clap their hands every time Obama opens his mouth.

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Yes, Obama is still waging war. That the anti-war movement has disappeared - I would call that hyperbole. “Millions have died” is factually incorrect. If you go back to 2001, maybe, but not if you go back to 2009 only.

But, we can disagree. I mean, I’m with you - I just see the problem as located more within government itself, as well as the private sector, and don’t see the current news media as being as big of a problem.

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if he loses the nominatation.

IANAL but, if they kick him out…