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2016 Postmortem

JCMach1

(27,559 posts) Fri Oct 21, 2016, 03:19 PM Oct 2016

Time to Stop Blaming Trump [View all]

Ultimately, he is what he is. It's awful, but he is genuinely who he is.

Instead, it's time to focus on those people who enabled him and who ultimately support most of his views and policies: the Republican Party.

The problem is not that all Republicans think the way this guy does. The problem is that they’ve been riding this tiger for a long time. They’ve been feeding their base all kinds of crazy for years, primarily for political expedience … -Pres. Barack Obama http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/10/obama-hits-gop-for-creating-trump-with-all-kinds-of-crazy.html

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Time to Stop Blaming Trump [View all] JCMach1 Oct 2016 OP

We'll stop blaming Trump after he's defeated on November 8th. Stand and Fight Oct 2016 #1

He's done, time to tie the albatross where it belongs... JCMach1 Oct 2016 #2

He's only done after the votes have been counted. No sense in getting over confident. Stand and Fight Oct 2016 #3

I don't seem to recall anyone being overconfident then... in fact I recall a lot of nailbiting JCMach1 Oct 2016 #5

I think you're right renate Oct 2016 #4

sick and glib... you just described Ted Cruz JCMach1 Oct 2016 #7

I don't think we need to stop blaming Trump so much as just spread the blame to all participants. I okaawhatever Oct 2016 #6

Well, there is a lot to spread JCMach1 Oct 2016 #9

tRump's 25 top enablers and collaborators... Raster Oct 2016 #8

plenty of blame from the top to the very, very bottom--the millions of racist dumbfuck losers geek tragedy Oct 2016 #10

But I don't like Spam!!! longship Oct 2016 #11

Donald just thinks he is an original Philothea Oct 2016 #12