That is the point. And you just said that codes were imaginary but now admit they exist.
Refer to the speech he made in Warsaw.
I guess we’re saying the same thing differently. My question. Which part of all of this is new territory? Trump took vilifying the other/fear tactics, spun in some progressive style politics of personal destruction a la Alinsky, and played on perceptions of decline.
None of this is new. And in this twisted two party system if he wins the nomination he IS the party for that cycle. Just like if Bernie had won everyone would have fallen in behind him.
Looks like the Republicans need superdelegates too to prevent populists from taking over I the future.
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The key word there being almost. And while HRC was a seasoned pol, she was also profoundly polarizing, even among Dems.
Trump is radically remaking the international order. Can you point out any Dem policy initiatives/goals that are remotely as extreme?
Again, the Dems are dabbling in ID politics as an electoral strategy, not as policy. If the Dems were pushing, say, massive reparations to people of color, that would be a radical policy derived from ID politics. But Dems are pursuing nothing like this.
The fact that you can’t think of them is all the proof you need to see that this is a chimera.
Wiggety what? Forgive me, but that is a patently absurd statement. How about slavery? Rape? Murder? Child abuse? Racism? Nazis? Nickelback? Curling in the squat rack?
You don’t like identity politics–I get it. But geez. Slow your roll on the ‘almost nothing more evil than’ talk.
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It is good t be fair. But code is always an inside thing. No one else understands it. It is very hard for code to be widely understood. And useless to use real code in political conversations
Don’t be silly I am saying the code in only in your mind. You understand it as code because that is the way you think. But it is not the way I think
Fair point. I haven’t met anyone else where it’s come up to call black people Canadian, but I also can’t imagine how that’d come up.
Tbh I prefer racism to be out in the open. My grandpa in WV used to fly one of those ‘Obama on a noose’ flags, but at least he had the balls to do it in the open so people would know what’s up going in.
If there’s one thing I definitely got from my mom’s side, it’s bluntness
This is wrong. How do we break codes if that is the case? Also, it’s not simply how one thinks, but knowing how others think. And history is our teacher in that regard. You are confusing understanding the code to agreeing with what it communicates. It’s a form of Othering.
I will give him honestly points. And it is always better to be honest. Even about bad things
Dude no one is speaking in code, learn to deal with it.
Dog whistle politics doesn’t exist? When Hilary used the word deplorables what was that code for? When Trump says bad hombres who exactly is he referring to?
Must be those Swedish and Norwegian Immigrants he so desperately wants.
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No, we’re not - you’re confusing Means with Ends. Meaner/more cynical tactics to achieve victory are a means to get some policy enacted - they aren’t the same as the policy itself.
Trump has taken the GOP away from its conventional goals and turned it closer to an American version of National Front. We haven’t had that in a major national party since the fascism-flirting reactionaries of the 1930s and 40s were making their noise. It’s a new ballgame in terms of philosophy for the GOP - the End - not just a new spin on how to win elections and drum up support - the Means.
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LOL. I know plenty of people that do that too. Weird because I think the code has been broken.
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Must have taken ages. Super complex code I tellyawhat
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Conservative supreme court justices, tax cuts, border enforcement, rule of law, deregulation… a lot of the boxes he’s ticking are conservative Republican.
He falls short on free trade and balanced budget pretty hard. But most of the platform is classic conservative. Not sure what you’re going on about.
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He was smart enough to subcontract SCOTUS-nominee selection to the Fed Society.
Hold on. Deficit/debt-ballooning tax cuts during a time when the economy is going gangbusters is conservative-Repub policy?
Separating children from their mothers is the antithesis of family values.
Given his smearing of the entire Justice Dept, I assume this one is a joke.
We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one.
These words will come back to haunt you in a few years.
Let’s see, I see you failed to mention blowing up the international liberal order, undermining NATO, browbreating Western allies while fawning over/sucking up to non-Western autocrats, attacking the press, involving himself in private disputes that have zero requirement for the Presidency’s involvement solely for the opportunity to demoagogue (see NFL anthem policy), unpaid for tax cuts passed for no other reason than to reward corporate overmasters, hiring corrupt cronies, etc.
Tell me - which one of these is good old fashioned Reaganism?
Utter nonsense. But I continue to enjoy the “libertarians for autocrats” phenomenon. That’s still the most hilarious result of the 2016 election.
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Reading entire posts still including you eh @EyeDentist ?
No. His handlers were.
Tax cuts to normalize us with the rest of the G20, yes. Deficit part is addressed in the part you didn’t read above.
Thanks Obama:
Not me. I’ll never be president.
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Yeah asking NATO to increase military spending = blowing it up.
Plus he’s a meanie “autocrat”. Cna you list any autocrat ACTIONS?
You’re complaining about means and not ends again.