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For no reason, no reason at all, the book entitled“Hitler’s Willing Executioners” just came to mind.
Trump has revealed the GOP base to be far more terrifying than I (foolishly) would’ve ever thought they could be before 2015.
One might even say that chanting with bloodlust for a duly elected member of Congress and citizen to be forcibly deported is...deplorable.
I’m not proud that I didn’t see this coming in such a virulent form. An earlier thread on my failure to see what was right there before my eyes.
What the President is calling for here is grievously illegal. He is in charge of the branch that executes the laws. I’m sure all of those principled libertarians like Rand Paul will immediately decry this authoritarian statement. <sarcasm>
Listen to Trump’s words. Then listen to these words by the women he’s attacking. If you find his words “more American” than theirs, then you are simply an irredeemably racist piece of shit.
I’m really fucking angry right now so I collapsed what the crowd said with what Trump said. But still, anyone who believes in rule of law would stop that chant dead and educate the crowd on why we don’t do that in the US. Needless to say, that did not happen.
Imagine a scenario where a “send her back” chant emerged at a Democratic rally when Melania’s name came up. I’d bet a ton of money that the Dem on the stage would stop that shit in its tracks.
And a bunch of people in the crowd, hopefully a majority, would shush that chant down. Not because anyone there loves Melania, but because they believe in the constitutional order.
But I’m sure we’ll be greeted with an endless barrage of centrist handwringing about the dangers posed by illiberal people on bothsides. That’s a bullshit narrative that only serves to normalize the outrageous place the GOP has gotten to in tolerating this man.
Needless to say, many “constitutional conservatives” are co-signing the crowd’s unconstitutional sentiments. 
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