2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"A fringe element has taken over the Republican Party"
"A fringe element has taken over the Republican Party"
And with that one, brilliant turn of phrase, Hillary Clinton has not only tied Donald Trump to the racist white supremisist alt-right movement, but has tightly tied that albatross around the neck of the entire party...
If you don't see how truly brilliant that is, I encourage you to watch or read the speech again.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Trump sealed the deal.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and has reached fever pitch.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)taken over the party after decades of conspiring but that one of their own creations, the Tea Party, turned on them,
that a mostly mindless right-wing rebellion against years of betrayal and exploitation grew,
that DarkMoney's previously captive and dutiful mainstream Republicans are now running in circles and flapping their hands without direction, as worthless to themselves as their previous string-pullers, and
that in this chaos a white nationalist fringe/anti-GOP leader with the help of a DarkMoney backer is temporarily able to move out of the shadows to the front. But it won't last long.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)They've been working for this for 50 yrs. Nobody should be surprised.
Gothmog
(145,063 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]