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bmpbmp

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Thu Aug 25, 2016, 08:17 PM Aug 2016

In what was called Clinton's bad week...

Donald Trump demonstrated that his position on the central policy issue of his campaign – immigration - fluctuates like the daily tropical storm outlook.

Apparently not having learned that one can’t please all the people all the time, he continues hard at work to prove the axiom false. At a campaign rally, Hannity asked him what his gut was saying. In response, Trump actually polled his audience to determine his stance with them. When asked to identify her candidate's position, Ms. Conway said "to be determined".

Does he have a spine? We don’t know, because there’s no real doctor willing to vouch for it.

Then he repeatedly mocks minorities in front of white audiences, saying “What have you got to lose?” His strategy for doing so is fallacious – he believes it's appealing in courting to white women. Instead, he’s just motivated exponentially more minority voters.

Finally, while still in the midst of Clinton’s worst week ever, Trump finds himself attached to a movement that half or so of the Republican party really don’t want to be tied to.

Because of that decision, conservatives in the coming months face this: knowing a vote for Trump is a vote for the alt-right movement, replete with white supremacism and the essential end of the established Republican party, what to do?

In reality, for most conservatives, their reasons for not supporting Clinton pale in comparison to the idea of taking this country back to a place where John Birch and Jim Crow were left behind.

If this was Clinton’s worst week, what was it for Trump?

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In what was called Clinton's bad week... (Original Post) bmpbmp Aug 2016 OP
All it takes is less than hour to turn everything around. madaboutharry Aug 2016 #1
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