Joy Reid Asks: WHERE’S THE KRYPTONITE?

[kpete]

Trump Makes a Bunch of Clark Kents Feel Like Supermen
It’s still kind of hard to believe that such a large percentage of our fellow citizens affirmatively want this vulgarian to be president. As best I can tell, here’s why.



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Obama was and is the face of the “new America”—young, urban and multiracial—that elected him.

Some Americans haven’t gotten over it.

From the start, Republicans, led by Sarah Palin and her vicious rally crowds, questioned everything from Obama’s religion (with their pointed references to his middle name … Hussein) to his very love of country. They were appealing to that segment of Americans who saw in Obama an America slipping away.

Now, millions of them have elevated an authoritarian carnival barker whose nods to white identity politics careen from winking to blaring, to within spitting distance of the White House. Donald Trump’s rise from reality show vulgarian to the Republican Party’s presidential nominee was fueled in large part by his willingness to embrace the birtherism his campaign is now trying to conveniently discard just weeks before the election (and according to Frontline, his desire for vengeance against Obama and everyone else who ever mocked him.)

It’s a testament to the cult of personality Trump has created that his followers and spokespeople, now joined by the head of the Republican National Committee, are attempting a truly Orwellian rewrite on the matter, trying to foist birtherism off on Hillary Clinton, as if the truth and lies are utterly interchangeable in Trump’s almost Soviet-style concept of leadership.



the rest:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/24/trump-makes-a-bunch-of-clark-kents-feel-like-supermen.html

[beachbum bob]

1. many americans have a defect and thats called lack of critical thinking

combine that with racism, bigotry and you have a trump candidate.........those voters would have voted for stalin or hitler or putin......luckily the votes trump needs to be able to win are the voters he loses because they are college educated and know a con when they see a con

[BSdetect]

2. People who can't vote for drumph but also not for HRC

Really, is she so bad for you?

There is no mud thrown crap that is real. Benghazi, emails, CGI etc All false and pathetic.

If you have not awakened yet there is no hope for you.

Voting 3rd party is suicide.

Drumph hopes you might.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. I hope they stay home

if they go to the polls they might not vote for tRump, but they may vote down ticket.

[Mc Mike]

3. It's Nair, Joy.

Getting to see and read Ms. Reid is the best thing that's come out of this election cycle.

[EL34x4]

4. "Obama was and is the face of the “new America”—young, urban and multiracial—that elected him."

So "what and is" Hillary Clinton?