2016 Postmortem

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:41 AM Oct 2016

The Unforgivables: Trump’s Top Collaborators

The Unforgivables: Trump’s Top Collaborators
The top 25 politicians, institutions, and media personalities that aided and abetted the rise of Donald Trump—and should never be absolved for it.

When Donald Trump loses the presidential election, Republicans and conservatives will start looking for people to blame. That is, if Trump concedes. To the constantly growing list of outrages against common decency and democratic traditions Trump has committed throughout this campaign we can now add sowing mistrust about the legitimacy of our electoral system. Trump is fomenting an hysteria amongst his already fanatical supporters that, when he loses, could lead to civil disorder and even violent insurrection.

The Trump campaign’s hunt for turncoats has already begun. Among Trump’s most die-hard supporters, literally nothing their candidate has done or could do will ever convince them that nominating a racist, dictatorial, misogynistic, conspiratorial, sociopathic, reality television show star for the highest office in the land might have been a bad idea, never mind unpatriotic. No, they will say come November 9, Trump’s loss will have been the fault of, in the words of Laura Ingraham, a “globalist cabal” of Republicans-in-name-only and highfalutin conservative intellectuals who refused to support the nominee. “I will hold all these arrogant ‘Never Trump’ people accountable after they have sabotaged DT,” Fox News host Sean Hannity angrily tweeted in August.

What makes Priebus’s betrayal especially egregious is that he was the RNC Chairman who commissioned an “autopsy” on the party’s 2012 electoral loss urging greater Republican engagement with women, youth and minorities. These are precisely the groups most repelled by the man Priebus now embraces, riding on his private jet like a giddy school boy. Decent Republicans should oust Priebus from the party chairmanship; the only job suitable for him is cleaning toilets at Trump Tower.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/19/the-unforgivables-trump-s-top-collaborators.html

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The Unforgivables: Trump’s Top Collaborators (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2016 OP

I can't wait for Hillary to take out the trash on Nov. 8. sarae Oct 2016 #1

READ THIS! READ THIS! READ THIS! One of the hardest hitting indictments... Raster Oct 2016 #2

It is an interesting read and worth the time for the refresher course. gvstn Oct 2016 #3

Somewhat agree on Hannity, however... Raster Oct 2016 #4

sarae

(3,284 posts)

1. I can't wait for Hillary to take out the trash on Nov. 8.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:43 AM

Oct 2016

We need clean up!

Raster

(20,998 posts)

2. READ THIS! READ THIS! READ THIS! One of the hardest hitting indictments...

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 10:56 AM

Oct 2016

...of the tRump enablers I have read to date! Well written, well researched AND PULLS NO PUNCHES!!!

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Perhaps due to her beauty, serene composure, and ability to translate her father’s half-literate ramblings into semi-coherent policy proposals, (9) Ivanka Trump has remained unscathed by her father’s 16-month effort to ruin the family name. Which is inexplicable, because all that Ivanka’s involvement in this campaign has revealed is that she’s the pretty face of a white nationalist political movement, a truly bizarre place for a University of Pennsylvania-educated, Upper East Side doyenne to wind up. As for her husband, the pathetic and pussy-whipped (10) Jared Kushner, he is equally if not more appalling in his role as the Jewish facade of a campaign steeped in anti-Semitic innuendo. Trump’s thuggish sons (11) Donald Jr. and (12) Eric would be hawking flyers for $150 suits on Sixth Avenue had they not been born into massive wealth, and if actual billionaire Mark Cuban is right that the “stigma” attached to the Trump brand is permanent, the inheritances of the entire Trump brood will be wiped out and they’ll be forced to undergo some sort of humiliating, permanent pauperization a la Trading Places.

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None of the conservative movement’s constituencies has been so supportive of Trump as evangelical Christians, with the troglodytic triumvirate of (22) Ralph Reed, (23) Tony Perkins (23) and (24) Jerry Falwell Jr leading the flock. These are men so shameless, craven and hypocritical that they expect their endorsements of an admitted sexual predator and perpetual adulterer to be taken seriously after having zealously supported the impeachment of Bill Clinton on account of his sexual ethics.

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Everyone who played a part in this outrage, from the RNC bigwigs to the Breitbarters on down to the Pepe-the-Frog avatar-wielding Twitter trolls, need to face consequences for their dangerous and disgusting behavior. Let the record show that, when America came as close as it’s ever come to electing a bona fide authoritarian president, the above individuals collaborated with evil.

gvstn

(2,805 posts)

3. It is an interesting read and worth the time for the refresher course.

Reply to Raster (Reply #2)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 11:15 AM

Oct 2016

They went a little easy on Hannity--he has been impossible.

Raster

(20,998 posts)

4. Somewhat agree on Hannity, however...

Reply to gvstn (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 11:28 AM

Oct 2016

"This meathead, overgrown frat boy would have made a fine broadcaster on East German state television circa 1973 so boundless is his ideological flexibility and opportunism."

I look forward to his slaughter-fest after November 8. I hope Kirchick does not stop rubbing their noses in their own piles of crap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirchick

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