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unwarranted's avatar

The right wing needs to come to grips with the people their hero represents. It isn’t the former patriots who worked in the manufacturing plants and factories, the angry workers who had their worlds rocked by job migration. Those

pissed off multitudes have lost their faith in the two fake parties and Trump is their rhetorical champion.

He doesn’t give a toss for victims, he loves winners. He had an opportunity to get behind policies to ease the pain of the throngs who helped him into office, and his whole ouvre as president was dedicated to the banks, the stock market, the corporate privileged, and the religious right. The one concession to the working poor was the photo op when he bought the cooperation of Carrier to keep their manufacturing plant in the rust belt. I think Carrier picked up and bolted at some point later and quietly.

So Trump may threaten the bureaucracy that invades personal privacy, and the neocons who dream of global domination, but his vision doesn’t elevate the dregs who love him. And leftists who recognize that capitalism is not up for discussion need to think long and hard before going all in on the Republican hero.

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GenEarly's avatar

Typical Rhetoric with No Plan, No Viable Candidates, just more blah that "Trump Bad".

You should just go ahead and advocate that sElections are beyond Corrupt and Ridiculous.

Then quote the only truth Mao ever uttered that All Power proceeds from the barrel of guns.

Go Full Bolshevik, don't be namby pamby about it, comrade.

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