Originally published at: Trump's creepy hate speech last night. Democrats are "sick, sinister, and evil people… This nation does not belong to them. This nation belongs to you." | Boing Boing
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And right on schedule, the final 2-year push for fascism in America is officially underway.
Holy shit, that’s amazeballs!
Every declaration this man makes about ‘the other side’ is a projection of his behavior.
You beat me to it; he’s just like that lil Nazi kid from Cabaret, only 70 years later, after having lost all talent and superficial aesthetic appeal.
This is your home. This is your heritage. And our American liberty is your God-given right.
And yet none of us are surprised.
It’s just what we’ve come to expect from the modern GOP…
At least he had the decency not to refer to us as a basket of deplorables.
Who ever figured that a transparently corrupt, needy, grasping, idiotic, childish, addled conman who was previously more a figure of fun than anything else would prove to be the Lemarchand’s box that would unlock the gateway* to American fascism?
Of all people. THIS guy.
*(He’s just the key. The dimension was there all along)
Trumpists love to bring that line up but always forget the context. Hillary Clinton wasn’t saying that all Republicans were deplorable. She wasn’t even saying all Trump supporters were deplorable. She was saying that people who voted for Trump because they were motivated by racism or misogyny were deplorable.
If anything her characterization of Trump voters was far too generous.
Ah yes. Hillary Clinton’s famous speech about how only some of the Republicans were awful racists, but others had legitimate concerns we should try to address. Plainly, as your party has shown since, she gave way too much credit.