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Samantha Bee: A Reminder to Our Government That White Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))8/09/2019 7:51:42 am PDT

re: #282 HappyWarrior

I’m a child of the 90’s. Trump wasn’t invisible to me. He made cameos in movies. He was honestly like Paris Hilton. Famous for being famous. He was seen as a joke. The type of person that exemplified why people didn’t like snobby rich businessmen. Never thought he would be President.

Nobody did, not even himself. But some GOP strategists figured out that they could win with him.

Michael Moore pointed it out as early as the summer of 2016, but he was correct.

It was all in the mathematics of the EC: all Trump had to do was carry all the states that Romney won in 2012 (no problem there) plus the four Rust Belt states of PA, OH, MI and WI. With those votes, he would not even need Florida.

The GOP concentrated their efforts on those four states and won them all by paper-thin margins, generally less than the total of disenfranchised or Independent voters.