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Myron Falwell8/24/2017 7:13:53 am PDT

re: #63 lawhawk

It needs to be understood that Trump is only playing to a minority of white supremacists while pissing off everyone else. It’s not even playing to his base… it’s a tacit admission to the moral and ethical bankruptcy of the Republican Party, who will repeatedly continue to look the other way because silence is consent. They aren’t really his base; yes, they share mutual racial hatred of President Obama’s election and reelection and, while sharing this racial hatred, but they still don’t let that out in the open.

Trump’s tactics are only meant to balkanize the voting public at large, at least those who aren’t suppressed from voting. It’s not indicative of a winning strategy or any goddam dimension of chess — hell, Trump’s trying to play chess with a deck of cards. He’s the least popular and least accomplished occupant of the White House at this juncture, with an unpresidented list of scandals rivaling in size to a New York City phone book.

There is a chance that GOP legislators may be humiliated by the public into doing something, i.e. the Russian sanctions, once the wild unpopularity of pardoning a known white supremacist and full-throated racist — coupled with dog whistle after dog whistle — starts to really sink in. But that’s if either 1) they are worried about losing their seats to an angry populace next November, 2) their donors are worried about losing their shirts on this hellscape or 3) it’s apparent they won’t be able to gerrymander and suppress their way out of this.