Yeah once you boil it down the theme seems to be that whether or not Trump supporters are ignorant or racist is not the primary issue. The main issue is that there are a lot of them, and they are angry. So you better stop being mean to them, or they're going to get even angrier.

Note I'm mostly talking about the True Believers going to rallies. Not the internet fanboys who swoon over Trump's game, and probably won't even vote.

Dude, what? Trump is the guy spouting racist garbage. Lol "attracts bad dudes," I wonder why. Of course there are racists, among other despicable people, who will vote for Hilary, and did vote for Obama. They don't exactly go around courting that vote. It's a bit different.

It contradicted the only clause because the general theme, characterized again and again throughout the news, is that Trump gets his support from the unsavory types listed. Constant reminders of how he gets more support from voters without college degrees and less from ones with them, how they make racist slurs at political rallies, etc. If you support Trump, you must be one of "those people".

But in that article, we have statements from some average Joes that indicate they tolerate and appreciate the varying aspects of the Trump and Bernie campaigns. Exactly the opposite of bigoted. And more of an accurate depiction of the reality, which is that many regular, non-racist/sexist/bigoted/misogynist Americans just seem to like Trump.

There's no evidence for this, though. There's some where disconnect here where your anger at the perceived ivory tower libtards looking down on you translates to some reason for us to think we're wrong. We know you're angry. We know you hate us.

Some people with poorly thought out anti-establishment views supporting both Bernie and Trump is not contradicting anything. Racism and socialism aren't opposites.

Peggy Noonan: "Trump is winning because of policy."*

*Banning Muslims is sensible

Even by beltway idiot standards this woman is an imbecile.

Yeah, I mean, what does supporting Bernie Sanders have to do with anti-racism? Is it LIKELY that a given supporter is a yuuge racist? No, but it's very far from impossible. Racism isn't even some unique phenomena to working-class people. Wealthy Democrats can be racist, a lot of them are quite obviously so. But, again, when Hilary is out on the stump, she isn't out there actively advocating the oppression of minorities. You know, like Trump.

i think "football star" might be a bit of an exaggeration. he played one year at some tiny college. but i guess he probably was a starter on his high school team but idk

Those Trump supporters were mean. What a mob. Two quiet civil dissenters, one holding a sign that simply said "America is already great", get their signs ripped and torn from their hands and kicked out of the event by security to chants of "USA!"...Wtf? What a miserable lot.

CRUSHING IT

It's like, supporting Bernie Sanders tells you very little about someone's racial views. I guess he's Jewish, so probably not a lot of anti-semites, but he's also a prominent opponent of big banks, so maybe there is something there for those guys.

So the variable 1 on Bernie.Sanders.Support isn't a good method of predicting anything.

But when we add the variable 1 on Make.America.Great.Again into that equation, well, now we've got something. We can draw some conclusions. Non-racists are repulsed by Trump's rhetoric!

If there is a quote of Trump calling someone a n*****, please post a link.

Also, Bill Clinton, still loved and supported by Hilary, has said some pretty undoubtedly racist things over the years (carry those bags and make that coffee Obama!) too. Not to mention, the incredibly high odds he has sexually assaulted or raped at least one woman at some point during his career, and a lower, but still non-zero chance that Hilary was made aware of it. Almost everyone certainly knows about these things. So are Clinton supporters implicitly supporting racists and/or rapists too?

Trump said that even Muslim Americans who are overseas should not be allowed back into the country. He used deliberately loaded language to paint Mexicans coming across the border as rapists (he knows that, but he assumes some are good people).

If you can't see why this is almost as bad as using the N-word than you are being hopelessly obtuse.

Clinton cheated. He never raped anyone. "Extremely high odds"? WTF? And then Hillary was made aware of it? How high are you right now?

Maybe you're just too baked to understand why what Trump said was extremely offensive and racist.

Only real question is whether he scored that high off D-Money, Smoothie, or Shifty.

He saw Primary Colors. That is where he is getting his Clinton info lol

He had a college football scholarship. no one else running has ever been hit. except maybe jeb if hes in to that.

Haha, not baked, but I am happily devouring freshly-baked, giant chocolate chip cookies right now

Ignoring everything regarding Bill's history (I personally don't care one bit that he cheated) for a moment, consider that many women do not report a sexual assault or rape for varying reasons. If they do report it, it's easier when their attacker is unknown or disliked. But it's extremely difficult to do so when your attacker is a well-liked, powerful and respected person in the community. And Bill Clinton has a list of accusers, settlements and known encounters spanning decades that were recently covered in the Washington Post. So call me skeptical. /derail

Juanita Broaddrick insists she was raped by Bill Clinton in the late '70's. Check out the wiki and her January 6th 2016 tweet.

That's so pathetic. This is not the climate for appealing to mature, reasoned discourse. This is the time to come out blasting that they're CUBAN HEELS and Rubio is CUBAN and his poor dead grammy made him promise he wouldn't forget his HERITAGE and that's AMERICA BABY. It doesn't work, exactly, but it's a better response than "Oh yeah, real mature you guys, study periods are for homework you know."

Actually it doesn't. I vote for Obama who's a Christian supposedly, but I'm not a Christian.


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Ok the rape sounds plausible. But telling your wife about it right after the fact so she can cryptically thank the victim for not saying anything? That doesn't seem remotely likely. Much more likely seems either Juanita hearing something that wasn't there - or the rape story isn't real.

Wow you really don't understand how empathy for an out-group works at all do you?

Alex, I voted for Trudeau who likes the Canadiens. I barely even like hockey!

That is about as relevant and as good of an analogy as you made.

There's a difference between voting someone who has made slurs or racial epitaphs about your race and voting for someone who has different religious values.

Alex helps make this thread fun.

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Face-palming at people who don't understand how analogies work is fun?