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kpete

(71,984 posts)
Fri Sep 9, 2016, 10:19 AM Sep 2016

Driving me nuts...



The harrowing reality is that the only thing standing between handing control of the Executive branch to a wildly ignorant, racist demagogue with a fondness for the authoritarian world is the second-most-unpopular presidential nominee in the history of modern polling. (The most-unpopular candidate is Donald Trump, though the gap between the two is narrowing.) That Clinton is viewed as the near-equivalent of Trump, a grotesque buffoon who has committed what would normally be considered a campaign-defining gaffe at a rate of approximately once a day for 15 months, required the convergence of several factors.”


http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/qotd-jonathan-chait.html?m=1
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Driving me nuts... (Original Post) kpete Sep 2016 OP
Before I read the article, I'll just throw out there that one of the main factors has to be MH1 Sep 2016 #1

MH1

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1. Before I read the article, I'll just throw out there that one of the main factors has to be
Fri Sep 9, 2016, 10:31 AM
Sep 2016

that this country has way too many blithering effing morons.

Now I'll go see what factors the author attributes.

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