Sunday, October 23, 2016

A Dangerous Time

Many, MANY, many Trump supporters believe whole-heartedly that Trump WILL win the election. Will win it unless it is "stolen" from him. Think of that as you read these excerpts from an article in The New York Times. Keep in mind the recent shooting up of the Emmett Till marker. Remember that Trump has exorted his racist supporters to go to polling places in black neighbords in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to make sure black people don't vote "ten times," meaning "don't vote."

This is a dangerous time but not the most dangerous time. That will come on November 8. And that will come after November 8 with the shock and awe of decisive defeat.

John Wilkes Booth did not make up his mind to assassinate Abraham Lincoln until he witnessed and heard Lincoln's second inaugural address--after Lincoln won reelection, after the racists effectively had lost the Civil War.

Donald Trump, Trump supporters, and the Republican Party must be destroyed as a political force in this country never to rise again. THEN, and ONLY THEN can we move to reconstruction of the political remainder of the nation

It is a dangerous time.

Hillary Clinton Presses Her Advantage Over a Struggling Donald Trump

"...urging black voters in North Carolina to vote early and punish Republican officeholders for supporting Donald J. Trump, even as Mr. Trump’s party increasingly concedes he is unlikely to recover in the polls.
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It is a sign of the extraordinarily lopsided nature of the presidential race that, even in a Republican-controlled state like North Carolina...
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With Mr. Trump so diminished as a competitor for Mrs. Clinton...

[They do not know what is about to hit them. A shock and awe defeat will stun them temporarily, as the military strategy is intended to do on the battlefield. But shock and awe will give way to angry bitterness and thoughts of retaliation, as it did with Booth.]
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Republicans fear Mr. Trump will do grievous damage to the party unless he can close the yawning gap with Mrs. Clinton...

Mrs. Clinton, who drew support from 50 percent of voters in the [ABC] poll, was openly dismissive of Mr. Trump over the weekend...

Karl Rove,...said Sunday on Fox News that he no longer believed Mr. Trump had a realistic path to victory against Mrs. Clinton.

“I don’t see it happening,” Mr. Rove said.

In addition to trailing by a wide margin in national polls, Mr. Trump has fallen well behind Mrs. Clinton in states that are likely to determine control of the Senate...

Two outside groups aligned with Republicans...have also begun running television commercials in Senate races that imply that Mrs. Clinton is likely to be the next president ...

...Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, acknowledged on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on NBC that Mr. Trump was trailing.