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Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Rejection

NY Times: Virginia Rejects Your Hateful Politics, Mr. Trump By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

2 comments:

Mark said...

Trumpism without Trump may not work in Virginia, but the bigger question is - what/who is the future of Trumpism?

Maybe this guy?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/13/is-tom-cotton-the-future-of-trumpism

Mark said...

"...belligerent boutique party for racists, nazis, sexists, and screwy billionaires..."

Exactly my point. The article talks about how Cotton maybe a face for the "Bannon movement" which was able allow "a louche New York billionaire to capture the citizens of small town conservatives".
The covers ARE off and much of the citizenry are not only ok with it, they continue to celebrate it.
I don't think the vast majority of Americans are who they (we) used to be. There is much in this new radical extreme that resonates with "good regular folk" that are our neighbors.