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> He destroyed half the social safety net in this country

Democrats controlled the House the whole time, so how’d he manage that?

> while running on a hideously bigoted platform

What a remarkable assertion.




The monkey tape is revealing.


Revealing of what? That racist jokes were normalized back in the 1970s? It’s not like we stopped telling exactly that same joke—we just changed the social norm around who is allowed to tell that joke. Are you more likely to treat people fairly because you won’t tell that joke (but would still laugh at the similar Dave Chapelle bits?) and what does it have to do with his platform?


Neoliberal democrats




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