Trumps is in!

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Originally Posted by Boreas

Some Americans, yes, but to simply attribute these fears to "Americans" suggests that most or even all Americans fear Muslims. This is demonstrably false.



Of course there are Americans who believe, or are at least receptive to, what Trump is spoon feeding them. So what? There are lots of stupid, even horrendous, things that many of us believe. The demagogues who prey upon such people do us no favors. At the risk of invoking Godwin, there was man in Germany who was "just saying out loud" what many of his countrymen believed. Look where that got us.



Trump is a profoundly evil human being who is capitalizing on people's worst basic instincts: their racism, xenophobia and paranoia. Every word he utters draws us ever closer to the edge of the abyss and gives our the propaganda of our enemies a veneer of legitimacy that makes it increasingly easy for them to recruit people to their cause.

Well stated.