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Showing Original Post only (View all)A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/17/president-elect-donald-trump-gets-to-work-betraying-his-backers.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoonChilling, but hard to dismiss. I hope she's wrong about a lot of this, but find a lot to agree with--unfortunately!
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A pessimistic prediction from Joy-Ann Reid. Read it anyway: she could well be right about everything [View all]
DFW
Nov 2016
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I think she's using the word as shorthand for "old school USSR, only with BMWs and high fashion"
MADem
Nov 2016
#15
LOL--most of the "Obama Scolds" here (most of whom have departed or been tossed over the side)
MADem
Nov 2016
#16
Hillary's not terribly "right." She's a product of her times, and has a JFK attitude on defense.
MADem
Nov 2016
#18
I don't think so. I think she is left of him on social programs, particularly women/kids issues.
MADem
Nov 2016
#20
Attacking Hillary and letting Trump win was not the way to move the Democratic Party left.
athena
Nov 2016
#26