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kartikeya posted:Not to get all Godwin's up in here, but it's a really dangerous thing to just assume some guy saying awful things and gathering a rabid fan base behind him will just totally mellow out and not manage/try to do any of the terrible stuff he's been shouting about once he has political power, or to assume that somehow he'll be reigned in or controlled if it gets that far. It doesn't have a historical track record of ending well. I think the people talking about how it will have "no effect" and talking in code to mean "As a white dude, trump will not be specifically targeting me, so I don't care". They know it will have an effect but see that effect as being primarily on other types of people, maybe ones they don't really like very much anyway.
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boner confessor posted:trump is not close to an electoral victory. the popular vote doesn't really matter if you look at it nationwide, you have to look at it state by state in the context of the electoral college and trump's chances are practically nonexistent by now. you have a better chance of being hit by lightning than trump does of winning the presidency That is exactly what people said about brexit stuff but it turns out white nationalists are a wicked huge block of voters that will come out to support things but fly under the radar of being on tv shows or interacting well with polls in a way that hide their number.
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Chilichimp posted:Yes, but is there something specific in Trump supporters that would make huge swathes of them prone to support him, but not openly? Why wouldn't there be just as large a number of obfuscated Clinton supporters? clinton isn't embarrassing to align with. If your minister tells you abortion is murder and we need a justice to overturn roe v wade trump is your only choice even if the whole thing of aligning with him is awkward and you hate him.
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