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Posted with respect for the consideration of the reluctant Trumpers of this board.I'm hopeful you'll find this article very respectable to you and the positions you have defensibly taken, while also hopefully finding parts of it challenging as well.Submitted very respectfully & with no desire for contention or combat.thebulwark.com/silence-of-the-reluctant-trumpers/

Ahh my friend, Greg is a never Trumper writing to always trumpers and some of us who are almost reluctant Trumpers. This line did bring me toa big smile:This is not to say that Reluctant Trumpers are required to condemn every presidential vulgarity.

Beware the AI Deep Fake for all candidates in 2020. Dont believe everything you see on the internet when it comes to the election. there will be a lot more of this stuff happening this go around. youtu.be/T76bK2t2r8g

The definition of racism has been stood on its head. Racism is defined legally as the belief in the inherent superiority of one race over another. The revised definition of racism is as follows, Whenever someone who is incidentally of European descent criticizes someone who is incidentally of non-white ethnicity, for any reason, and on any subject, it automatically constitutes racism. I for one will push back against this false view of racism as long as I have breath in my body. This false definition of racism is, at its core, racism against people of European descent. It is designed to intimidate them into silence and submission because of their ethnicity. I will continue to fight for all people to be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, as MLK taught us. By the way, the legal definition of a white person is those with an ancestry of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Thus, AOC needs to stop referring to herself as a woman of color

Your revised definition of racism is spot on

Dave,Growing up in the 70s - the love it or leave it mantra was quoted often. It was never racist as is being portrayed here. It had to do with the Vietnam war, it had to do with Communists and similar things. It wasn't racist.Now, I did also hear racist things regarding sending all blacks back to Africa...but it was totally different.So - these America haters in Congress happen to have dark skin. Did he say go back to your country because they were black? I do not believe he did, and that has nothing to do with love for Trump. It was a stupid thing to say - but he has built a career saying just those things. But it isn't racist - it is a cry that many Americans have made over the years - with nothing to do with race - but those that don't love it, can leave it.Listen the hope of immigrants to this country is the land of opportunity - the home of the brave - not guaranteed outcomes. Those that embrace that ideal - and LOVE this country because of it - are the immigrants that should be granted the right to become citizens here...no matter how poor or downtrodden they are. We do not want those that hate America - no matter how rich or poor they are - to become citizens - its just that simple - and I believe Trump's ideal is the same

For the record -- and treading lightly because I was being genuine and sincere when saying that (for once) I did not want to start a fight -- I didn't read love it or leave it as xenophobic or racist, and I don't think the article was suggesting that either.The underlying tone of Trump's tweets was more xenophobic than racist IMO, but what put it outside the boundaries for me was the underlying assumption that the four, for all their flaws, were fundamentally not Americans but should be more closely associated with their original countries of origin. I'm still not sure I'd call that racist, but it's definitely bigotry and represents, IMO, what the article called the assumption that people belonging to ethnic minorities are permanent strangers, here on the sufferance of “real Americans” so long as they keep their mouths shut.Love it or leave it does not communicate that assumption IMO, but Trump's remarks did. And as the article said, the president did not mean Chicago (Ayanna Pressley), Detroit (Rashida Tlaib), the Bronx (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) or the naturalization ceremony (Ilhan Omar).

Trump gets tired of four leftist women who hold elected office trashing our country. He reminds them of the state of the countries they or their families came from, invites them to go back and fix those nations, and then RETURN to implement the same wonderful policies here. While it is obviously this rebuke on Trump's part was over policy and ideology, these were minority women, making any disagreement expressed by a white man to automatically be racism. These are the new rules

Re: Vote Trump 2020

It would not surprise me if he wins the popular vote this time