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DonViejo

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Thu Oct 20, 2016, 11:39 AM Oct 2016

Donald Trump undermined democracy: Where’s all this going, after the election? Not someplace good

The night Donald Trump undermined democracy: Where’s all this going, after the election? Not someplace good

If Trump depicts Clinton's coming victory as the act of a criminal usurper, the endgame could get very ugly

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON


After Donald Trump became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee last spring, he went before a West Virginia audience and said, “You’ve been hearing me say it’s a rigged system, but now I don’t say it anymore because I won. It’s true. Now I don’t care. I don’t care.”

He continued, “And the only way I won was I won by such big margins because it is a rigged system. But the only way you can do it, it’s like a boxer, you got to knock them out then you don’t got to worry about the judges.”

Trump didn’t win by big margins. He won by grinding it out in primary after primary, winning just enough in a huge field to come in first with far less than a majority. But Trump is a total stranger to the truth and he says whatever he needs to say to get through the moment.

The polls show that Trump is lagging far behind right now. And on Wednesday night during his final presidential debate in Las Vegas with Democrat Hillary Clinton, when moderator Chris Wallace asked him if he would accept the results of the upcoming election, Trump said again that the system is rigged, that the media has been dishonest and corrupt and has poisoned the minds of the voters. Then he said this, very pointedly:

So let me just give you one other thing. So I talk about the corrupt media. I talk about the millions of people — tell you one other thing: she shouldn’t be allowed to run. It’s crooked — she’s, she’s guilty of a very, very serious crime. She should not be allowed to run. And just in that respect, I say it’s rigged because she should never . . . Chris, she should never have been allowed to run for the presidency based on what she did with emails and so many other things.


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http://www.salon.com/2016/10/20/the-night-donald-trump-undermined-democracy-wheres-all-this-going-after-the-election-not-someplace-good/
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Donald Trump undermined democracy: Where’s all this going, after the election? Not someplace good (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2016 OP
The 1960's were difficult but we were a better country after having fought those fights. TonyPDX Oct 2016 #1

TonyPDX

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1. The 1960's were difficult but we were a better country after having fought those fights.
Thu Oct 20, 2016, 11:55 AM
Oct 2016

It looks like we'll have to collectively re-litigate our cultural values from time to time. The authoritarians were suppressed for a couple of decades following the turmoil of the '60s, but they obviously didn't go away. Same goes today (IMHO). After Trump is embarrassingly rejected in polling booths across the country, his henchmen will fade into the background for awhile, but they won't go away. We have to remain vigilant and true to our values.

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