A critical date bc it proved explicit racism could--and would--beat all the claptrap GOP has invested in religion over last several decades.
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I raise that bc there's STILL a push to suggest Trumpistas influenced by Putin. Yeah, Putin helped. But Trump was ALREADY winning w/racism.
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Push to blame Trump exclusively on Putin has effect of letting racists off the hook. They--& America--are not responsible for racism. RU is.
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But the fact of the matter--as proven by SC primary--is Trump was enabled first and foremost by America's tolerance of racism.
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It's a more helpful insight than blaming Putin.
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I'm not overlooking. I'm pointing out that people who want to blame RU first are coddling racists.
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Always, the question is "What to do?" It's illegal and punishable for RU to interfere. Racism is a different category.
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It's illegal and punishable for RU?
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What to do? Sanctions on Russia, punishment for anyone who took part. Of course Racism is the main point, but voting based on it not illegal
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Actually, suppressing the vote to suppress the vote is illegal, but w/o teeth (in same way RU interference doesn't have teeth).
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Too much shorthand for my simple understanding. You're saying propaganda doesn't work? Russia gummed us for Trump?
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Both difficult problems. But w/o doing something abt the racism, you're not going to fix problem, bc it is the far more powerful problem.
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Yes. Agreed. Only reason I stuck my nose in was to emphasize that throwing some people in jail is required short term.
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A lot of people are just unreachable on the Racism problem.
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Racism helped Trump in the primary; but Kasich would have done better than Trump in the general.
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Possibly true. I don't engage in any counterfactuals on last year bc it was a historically weird year.
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That night is when it was pretty clear Trump would win. In fact, back in '15 I said Cruz would win nom. Well, so much for that I thought
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Trump and Cruz very similar in their acceptance of racial divide. Trump is just more overt about it.
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Yes, as Marcy notes I thought the extreme religiosity with Cruz's racism would prevail. But pure racist red meat conquers all
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Sad, but true.
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