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Silent3

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4. God, that still makes me cringe
Sat Jul 4, 2020, 01:04 PM
Jul 2020

I remember seeing that and thinking about the total lack of social awareness it would take to watch such cloying and crude propaganda and to somehow think it was cute or endearing or clever.

Even back during my relative innocence of early 2016 I knew there were plenty of suckers who would eat up that kind of crap, and worse, the far uglier crap Trump was selling, but still my only real fear of Trump becoming president was that something BIG (much more than "What about her emails!?" ), real or invented, would materialize as an October Surprise to bring Hillary Clinton down.

That there were enough "deplorables", and enough Bernie-or-bust idiots, and enough people who couldn't see the clear threat that Trump represented to find the motivation to get out there and vote against Trump, so that Trump could eke out an Electoral College victory? Even my already fairly cynical view of humanity back then hadn't been sufficiently calibrated to accommodate that possibility.

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