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Oh I think some of the Trump supporters posting here spent from 2008 to 2016 complaining about "that N Word In The White House".
 
pgwenthold said:
Of course, this is the beauty of the MAGA campaign. You don't actually have to define when it was great, and leave that as an exercise to the reader. So someone can say it was the 40s, and another can say the 60s and another can say the 80s, and they can all be content in the belief that they are right.
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acbytesla said:
There were things about yesteryear that were better. But of course, we're being selective and it's only through our own eyes. For me, I was much better looking, physically fit and could endure almost anything. But I was broke all the time. Nostalgia is a strange thing. We have a tendency to filter out the bad stuff and also forget that life is generally more fun when we are young regardless of the experience of society as a whole.

But Trump doesn't actually want to turn back the clock. Taxes on wealthy were considerably higher. The disparity of incomes in the 40s, 50s and 60s was much much closer. At least for white people. Those days were terrible for blacks, homosexuals, and not so good for women and their choices.
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These.
 
Bob001 said:
He might have been right, but maybe a little too subtle for a political campaign speech:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/...column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
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In context, it makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, "We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great to begin with.", is the soundbite that is getting, and will continue to get reported, and used by Republicans against every Democrat in the country. It really makes me wonder what he could possibly have been thinking when he said that.
 
CORed said:
In context, it makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, "We're not going to make America great again. It was never that great to begin with.", is the soundbite that is getting, and will continue to get reported, and used by Republicans against every Democrat in the country. It really makes me wonder what he could possibly have been thinking when he said that.
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It's not going to hurt him in NY. May effect him in a national race....maybe.
 
pgwenthold said:
Of course, this is the beauty of the MAGA campaign. You don't actually have to define when it was great, and leave that as an exercise to the reader. So someone can say it was the 40s, and another can say the 60s and another can say the 80s, and they can all be content in the belief that they are right.
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Yes, and that's true with a lot of Trump's ramblings: They can be interpreted to mean whatever the listener wants. But appealing to lost greatness (and identifying the culprit ethnic group) is standard nationalistic demagoguery, which registers with the reactionary's sense that society is forever sliding downhill.
 
Regnad Kcin said:
Well-articulated food for thought.
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Trump makes sure he is never off the news.
The flip side is that once we manage to shut him up, we will instantly stop caring about him. Trump will disappear almost instantly once he gets his Twitter revoked (as a private citizen).
 
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