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this line from "The Sounds of Silence" is playing in my head when I think of the media and GOPers who gave Trump a pass until it was almost too late.
(and some still do)
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I can't imagine who. Just speculating but could it be a woman? Meg Whitman?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/meg-whitman-hillary-clinton.html?_r=0
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The Sounds of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
Neath the halo of a streetlamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
No one dare
Disturb the sound of silence
Fools said I, You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said The words of the prophets
Are written on subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Demonaut
(8,922 posts)we can only hope
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)The other many candidates also had their individual support diluted among each other, especially early on.
Trumpty Dumbties also seem to be very passionate about "taking down the government establishment" compared to issues for other voters, so their voter turn-out might have been higher.
Nitram
(22,843 posts)...on Trump, and harshly criticizing him, since the beginning. That includes the Washington Post in which even conservative columnists like George Will, Michael Gerson and Charles Krauthammer are hammering Trump.