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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 01:05 PM Aug 2016

Denial, anger and revenge: By playing the “rigged election” card, Trump and his backers...

...will wreak havoc on the U.S. after November
Trump's followers and the GOP will do everything to ensure that Clinton and America pays a price for her victory
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON WEDNESDAY, AUG 10, 2016


Back in the early 1980s Republicans convinced themselves that the Reagan Revolution had ushered in a thousand year reign. It was unimaginable that any Democrat could possibly be president now that the glory of Ronald had been bestowed upon America. So when Bill Clinton won in 1992 they simply refused to believe it. Republican leader Dick Armey openly declared that Clinton was not his President. In his 2003 book “The Natural” Joe Klein wrote:

From the beginning of his presidency, there was indeed the sense – radiating from the Gingrich wing of the Republican Party . . . that the new President was a usurper who had managed to hoodwink the American public. He was to be opposed at every turn, by any means necessary, and, if possible, destroyed.

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/10/denial-anger-and-revenge-by-playing-the-rigged-election-card-trump-and-his-backers-will-wreak-havoc-on-the-u-s-after-november/
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