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Full Text: President Obama's Powerful, Eloquent Statement on Trump's Most Racist Move Yet

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Blind Frog Belly White9/05/2017 12:45:28 pm PDT

re: #34 HappyWarrior

That’s true but what does the Republican base think of DACA? They need their votes before they run in the GE.

And therein lies the problem. The GOP was taken over by a hard core of racists, homophobes, Islamophobes, and xenophobes, who comprise about 30% of the electorate.

Another 15% of the population are either okay with racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, and xenophobia, or can’t see it even when it’s in front of them, and vote GOP as a matter of course. Another 5-6% this year decided that HRC was probably going to win, and we’d need a GOP Congress to restrain all of her wild moderateness.

So, now the GOP Congress can’t even pass bills that 70% of America wants, because they’re deathly afraid of half that many people. And the middle are too disengaged, and either can’t or won’t believe how extreme the GOP now is.