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RKP5637

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3. And imagine his ego growing and growing once he had all of that power behind him. It's

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Sat May 21, 2016, 03:59 PM

May 2016

hard to tell what he's capable of, but my gut feeling is it will not be good. And millions of Americans would likely sign up to be his brown shirts. I was saying this to a friend recently and they told me I was nuts. ... but studying history real shit happens and countries change drastically.

I mentioned once in the Hillary group that I thought Hillary would keep things the same and they kicked me out of the group! It was a compliment, certainly Hillary would not go down the road of Trump. So WTF, they kicked me out. I was amazed.

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Those who do not learn from History.....Trump is not Hitler. Hitler wasn't even Hitler, until he was [View all] arely staircase May 2016 OP

Those cheering on political upheaval - it's all well and good when you're on top BUT KittyWampus May 2016 #1

^And a lot of posters here on DU would have said there was no difference between Ben Franklyn and world wide wally May 2016 #5

I can agree... Xyzse May 2016 #2

And imagine his ego growing and growing once he had all of that power behind him. It's RKP5637 May 2016 #3

We are already seeing a separation of the goats and the sheep within the GOP arely staircase May 2016 #7

Very reminiscent! n/t RKP5637 May 2016 #8

Anyone who doesn't understand the absolute urgency of defeating this man is beyond me. tritsofme May 2016 #4

Interesting Fairgo May 2016 #6

By "radical progressives" you mean the KDP? JHB May 2016 #9