OldFlame
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None of this will ever go away- sadly this is the new normal.
It won't end with Trump- this is how dems do politics now. They have no vision for the future, their hearts are only filled with hate and vitriol.
The "fighting words" (as a court would call them) really took off in 2009. That's when republicans became "extremists" and "hostage takers", according to the Obama administration The media picked up on the narrative and ran with it- you had to listen carefully to know if they were talking about republicans or al Qaeda...
The White House spokesman said republicans came to the budget meetings with "bombs strapped to their chests". Obama called them the "enemy", and Biden told black people the repubs would "put y'all back in chains".
15 years of normalizing this very extreme characterization of the political opponent can't be undone. We are in a new era. The weaponization of the gov't was the icing on the cake.
Whatever happens with Trump doesn't mean a hell of a lot- the next republican on the stage will get the same treatment, and the one after that, etc.
It's all the dems have left. The ideas are spent, their hatred is all that remains.
Bravo, very well stated, and what I have been saying as well, this will not end with Trump. I saw some comments just today that showed that to be true. With each outlandish step they take that they get away with, and with the media covering for them, they will continue to push these extremes. I often wonder when it will go too far, if ever. I hope every single person that has propagated us to this point pays the price for it, unfortunately they're going to bring everyone else along with them for the ride.