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tgards79

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Sat Feb 24, 2018, 05:03 PM Feb 2018

BTRTN: Young Voices Carry

Trump stumbles his way through a proper response to the carnage and the young voices that are shaming him into action:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/02/btrtn-young-voices-carry.html

"Donald Trump, discovering exactly how bad this issue is for Republicans, suddenly started floating support for some of those same ideas before finally settling firmly on the NRA-backed position: let’s put more guns in the schools! Let’s arm teachers, not just any teachers, but military-based, weapons-friendly ones! Why, Trump estimated, some 10 percent of all teachers today have such a background! Since we here at BTRTN are careful about numbers, we in turn estimate that Trump is almost certainly off here, perhaps by as much as – ten percentage points.

The absurdity of this idea put off the notion that Trump may take the “Nixon in China” route of leading his own constituency to a more progressive future. Trump may also be..."

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