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John Ranta's avatar

Hear hear, Gailee. A fraud like Trump would never have gotten near the White House were it not for 62 million deplorable (Hillary got THAT right) voters in 2016. To think that, after watching his abhorrent, incompetent clown act for 4 years 11 million MORE voted for him in 2020 is unthinkable. There is no justification for voting for Trump. I can never forgive them.

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T L Mills's avatar

Amen, JR. That so many people were so easily swayed, tells me that it didn't take much to 'sway' them. And of course, Rupert's Fox entertainment 'news' deftly prepared the way.

Although I have been a Dem for well over forty years, it must said that the Dems, especially the DNC, the DCCC and the DLC (ended in 2011) from 1985 to 2011 to the present have done less than nothing to counter the Repub strategies.

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Sandra VO (Maryland)'s avatar

Speaking, TC Mills, about Rupert's impact, I was heartened to read Margaret Sullivan's column yesterday in the Post about the Handbook on how to Protect Democracy, an excellent Guide, but should have been available when Trump came down the golden escalator in 2015, imho!

How journalists can spot the signs of autocracy — and help ward it off - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/23/protect-democracy-media-jan6-journalists-autocracy/

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Pensa_VT's avatar

If you understand history, it was pretty obvious from the get go. But trump loves the uneducated.

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Pensa_VT's avatar

We are not totally sure that the election was not "rigged." Remeber that Twittler did project outwards that if he did not win, it meant it was rigged. That was a telltale sign to me that he had help from within in 2016. He had the paid thugs, Manafort, Flynn, Conway and Bannon funded by hostile foreign entities and a conspiracy-crazed billionaire American oligarch and his daughter financially supporting other ruin of America. And despite all that, he lost the popular vote in 2016. That must eat at his ego every day.

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Gailee Walker Wells's avatar

⚘⚘⚘ Neither can I

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