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2016 Postmortem

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Trump is only the last stage: Nixon --> Gingrich --> Rove --> Palin --> tRump

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2016, 02:38 PM

Oct 2016

President Nixon created the polarizing "Southern strategy" and appealed to the "silent majority".

Gingrich introduced scorched earth / take no prisoners politics including the government shutdown.

Rove perfected polarization seeking to obtain a rock solid 51% rather than a shaky 60%.

Palin made incompetent ignorance a Republican common-place.

Donald J tRump, birther con man in chief, keeps digging down to ever more deplorable depths.

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Trump's Vile Game of Distraction [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2016 OP

Trump is only the last stage: Nixon --> Gingrich --> Rove --> Palin --> tRump Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2016 #1

You pretty much summed up the Wellstone ruled Oct 2016 #2

"Republican Party's beautiful dream of a permanent Christian ethnocentric oligarchy" was doomed. Coyotl Oct 2016 #3

Their is a Model for those who doubt,to look at and Wellstone ruled Oct 2016 #4

With New Bundystan as their latest attempt to make that happen. That worked really well!! Coyotl Oct 2016 #5

Home of the Tea Party,home of Wellstone ruled Oct 2016 #6