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kimbutgar

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1. When I heard Trump talk about the silent majority

Reply to marble falls (Original post)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 11:13 AM

Sep 2015

I remembered that term from the 70's and the Christian Right and George Wallace using that term. He is using old rhetoric to rile up the old racists who buried deep inside themselves old racism. The election of President Obama stirred up that old emotion and trump is actively tapping into it more obviously. I know he will use the term " blacks are lazy" you know it's coming.

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