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Stuart G

(38,420 posts)
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:20 PM Aug 2017

Yes, a few words can totally define a President...

John F. Kennedy.............January 20, 1961

"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Richard Nixon.......................................... "I am not a crook".................................................
November 17, 1973

Donald Trump......"What a Crowd, What a Turnout" ................................................ August 29, 2017

Abraham Lincoln ...........November 19, 1863................................................................

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. "

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Yes, a few words can totally define a President... (Original Post) Stuart G Aug 2017 OP
Tell me he didn't... 3catwoman3 Aug 2017 #1
Trump really said that...........I cannot make that up. no one can Stuart G Aug 2017 #2
He really has absolutely... 3catwoman3 Aug 2017 #3
But he has followers FiveGoodMen Aug 2017 #4
Yes, he has followers, but yes, the number is getting smaller. Stuart G Aug 2017 #5
Well, I used to think that the enormous number of people with white supremacist attitudes FiveGoodMen Aug 2017 #6

Stuart G

(38,420 posts)
2. Trump really said that...........I cannot make that up. no one can
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:27 PM
Aug 2017

Hit this link, and you can see him saying it..Myles Archer posted it in Video and Multimedia

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017454706

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
4. But he has followers
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:41 PM
Aug 2017

And they have no redeeming qualities, either.

But they are an ongoing, existential threat to democratic (small d!) government.

If we can't do something about them, we'll lose everything.

Stuart G

(38,420 posts)
5. Yes, he has followers, but yes, the number is getting smaller.
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 04:57 PM
Aug 2017

less and less. Today's comments will peal off some more. Total insensitivity..A few more will see him for what he is...yes, a few more, but as the number gets smaller, those followers will have much less influence.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
6. Well, I used to think that the enormous number of people with white supremacist attitudes
Tue Aug 29, 2017, 05:33 PM
Aug 2017

had been getting smaller since the Civil War -- or at least since I was a child in the 60's.

Trump's rise to power has certainly disproved that.

Is the number really getting smaller at the moment, or is that wishful thinking?

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