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2016 Postmortem

In reply to the discussion: Time to Stop Blaming Trump [View all]

okaawhatever

(9,461 posts)
6. I don't think we need to stop blaming Trump so much as just spread the blame to all participants. I
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 03:29 PM
Oct 2016

don't think Trump's rigged election claim would seem even remotely logical if it weren't for the GOP's years-long efforts to disenfranchise voters of the Democratic persuasion. I don't think Trump's suggestion of building a wall would have resonated if it weren't for years of immigrant bashing, right wing militia groups patrolling the border, and an unfettered wave of propaganda and misinformation in the right wing media.

I won't stop blaming Trump, because his policies and beliefs need to be tied into the Republican party better. Right now the GOP are acting like Trump is an anomaly, and that may be true, be they created the conditions for this and that can't go unanswered.

I'll take the "Spread the Blame" approach.

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