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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Fri Aug 10, 2018, 09:23 AM Aug 2018

I'm not saying all of Trump's supporters are stupid...not that I couldn't

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Heh - a lucid and valid point!

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I'm not saying all of Trump's supporters are stupid...not that I couldn't (Original Post) Soph0571 Aug 2018 OP

If you keep thinking of all his supporters as stupid, you will keep losing elections. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #1

Deplorables are very stupid people which is why they vote for trump Gothmog Aug 2018 #2

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,396 posts)

1. If you keep thinking of all his supporters as stupid, you will keep losing elections.

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Aug 10, 2018, 10:01 AM

Aug 2018

Anecdotal pictures of a few supporters are not sufficient to prove your claim.

Like it or not, a lot of his neo-Nazi supporters have master degrees from highly regarded. They are not stupid.

READ THIS CAREFULLY: This does not mean that I think neo-Nazis are a bunch of really swell guys. Okay? I'm merely pointing out a fact.

Richard Spencer, Stephen Miller, Laura Ingraham -- all highly educated. Not stupid at all.

Name-calling does not win elections. Voting does, and support in some other fashion if you cannot vote.

Underestimating your opponent guarantees that you will fail.

Gothmog

(145,130 posts)

2. Deplorables are very stupid people which is why they vote for trump

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Aug 10, 2018, 10:53 AM

Aug 2018

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