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Colgate 64

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5. Trump is nothing but a mirror

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Thu Nov 7, 2024, 02:27 PM

Nov 7

reflecting back to 49% of the electorate. He shows them not only as they are, minus whatever veneer of morality or manners that have previously constrained them. He shows them naked for all the world to see, clothed in their prejudices, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-LSQBT, ant-Semitic, anti-Latino anti-Colored, anti-everyone who isn't just like me beliefs and stereotypes. And he shows them that it's OK now to let it all hang out - "Speak your mind, don't let what others may think of you bother you, just say whatever's on your mind and let the rest of the world deal with it."

The mirror reflects an ugly, nasty and superbly un-American picture,

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