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@fordm yes

@fordm @AlexJamesFitz His policies will never come to pass. But they offer a cultural reframing of acceptable thought - fascism and hate.

@fordm Trump is verbalizing the thinly veiled bigotry that's roiling just below a very thin skin churned by hate-media & rt wing religion

@fordm @ggreenwald The REAL danger is that americans, like they did with Bush Jr, would elect a guy like Trump.

@fordm @ggreenwald that, and it's also a pretty bad dangerous policy as well.

@fordm @benkeeton uh, this is one of those so real it's legitimately scary things. This is the scary part. Legitimizing bullying, hate, etc

@fordm @froomkin but that's true of a long line of Republicans - and European rightists. Mainstreaming of hate going on for years.

@fordm @daveliepmann Read the Nightmare Years by Bill Shirer. Trump & his supporters are the Brown Shirts of the late 1920's, early 1930's.

@fordm @antmay A further danger is the expansion of the "anti-terror" government in the name of "anti-bigotry".

@fordm @JohnLorinc and it will have negative impact for years

@fordm @ggreenwald what's scary is trump is the republican front runner with absolutely no understanding of the power of the office he seeks

@fordm @asmith83 Sounds just like pre WWII Germany. At least we never have to ask again "how did the holocaust happen". #RightBeforeOurEyes