What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Habbaku]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/world/asia/north-korea-sanctions.html

We live in a psych ward.

[DGuller]

Trump has imposed and lifted new sanctions on North Korea today.  I'm at a loss for words.

I hate that glitch in EU4.

[Razgovory]

Trump has imposed and lifted new sanctions on North Korea today.  I'm at a loss for words.

I hate that glitch in EU4.

Bug report:  AI declares war offers white peace within 12 hours. 
Developer:  WAD.

[Tamas]

What a moron. He continually berates, bullies and trash-talks his own allies, and acts like a little desperate bitch of dictators and enemies of the US.

[Syt]

No tweets yesterday. And today:

Good Morning, Have A Great Day!

and

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

[Syt]

Lincoln Day Dinner at Mar-A-Lago.

[Syt]

Though probably telling that Lincoln apparently gets reduced to "the guy on the $5 bill."

[Oexmelin]

The obsession over "The Party of Lincoln", the denunciation of the historic party switch as lies (see D. De Souza), and the insistence that the Democrats are the racists (KKK!) just shows party affiliation for Republicans is now making the same emotional demands that patriotism once did.

[Razgovory]

If I understand D'Souza's argument correctly, blacks have been re-enslaved by the Democrats and put into a "Federal Plantation".  Unfortunately blacks are too stupid, lazy, and malicious to do anything about it.

D'Souza is correct that many Klansmen were Democrats (as were many Republicans in 1920's).  He is incorrect to say that the Democratic party founded it.  D'souza is really big on saying that minorities shouldn't be forgive Democrats for stuff that happened 150 years ago.  He is hasn't said much about how the Republican party essentially made it illegal for non-whites to immigrate to the US from 1875-1940.  This is puzzling since we wouldn't have been able to immigrate to the US were it not for the Democrats removing these restrictions.

[Eddie Teach]

This is puzzling since we wouldn't have been able to immigrate to the US were it not for the Democrats removing these restrictions.

Are you also a non-white recent immigrant? 

[Barrister]

If I understand D'Souza's argument correctly, blacks have been re-enslaved by the Democrats and put into a "Federal Plantation".  Unfortunately blacks are too stupid, lazy, and malicious to do anything about it.

D'Souza is correct that many Klansmen were Democrats (as were many Republicans in 1920's).  He is incorrect to say that the Democratic party founded it.  D'souza is really big on saying that minorities shouldn't be forgive Democrats for stuff that happened 150 years ago.  He is hasn't said much about how the Republican party essentially made it illegal for non-whites to immigrate to the US from 1875-1940.  This is puzzling since we wouldn't have been able to immigrate to the US were it not for the Democrats removing these restrictions.

I'm curious - do you have a source that says many Republicans in the 1920s were KKK members?  It seems odd to me that just 60 years removed from the Civil War that the GOP would embrace racism in that way, but I could be wrong.

And I do feel obliged to point out that the 1965 immigration reform bill passed with bipartisan support.  In fact a greater proportion of Republicans voted for it than did Democrats.

[The Brain]

Nothing the GOP has done matters today. They decided to be the party of Trump, and that is how I'll know them.

[dps]

If I understand D'Souza's argument correctly, blacks have been re-enslaved by the Democrats and put into a "Federal Plantation".  Unfortunately blacks are too stupid, lazy, and malicious to do anything about it.

D'Souza is correct that many Klansmen were Democrats (as were many Republicans in 1920's).  He is incorrect to say that the Democratic party founded it.  D'souza is really big on saying that minorities shouldn't be forgive Democrats for stuff that happened 150 years ago.  He is hasn't said much about how the Republican party essentially made it illegal for non-whites to immigrate to the US from 1875-1940.  This is puzzling since we wouldn't have been able to immigrate to the US were it not for the Democrats removing these restrictions.

I'm curious - do you have a source that says many Republicans in the 1920s were KKK members?  It seems odd to me that just 60 years removed from the Civil War that the GOP would embrace racism in that way, but I could be wrong.

The KKK of the 20's was primarily a nativist, anti-Catholic movement based in the Midwest, whereas at most other times in its history, it was an anti-black movement based in the south.  I don't doubt that many Republicans in that area were KKK members at the time.

[Valmy]

The obsession over "The Party of Lincoln", the denunciation of the historic party switch as lies (see D. De Souza), and the insistence that the Democrats are the racists (KKK!) just shows party affiliation for Republicans is now making the same emotional demands that patriotism once did.

That is not exactly new. The Democrats = Traitors who are not entirely American has been there thing basically since the founding the party. Naturally how accurate that is varies with time

[Oexmelin]

That is not exactly new. The Democrats = Traitors who are not entirely American has been there thing basically since the founding the party. Naturally how accurate that is varies with time

It has happened before, yes -  but not as a continuous feature.  And if those previous moments are anything to go by, the kind of polarization we are witnessing does not bode well for the future.