Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 23 2018 04:43pm)
I'm a huge fan of it. The more the self-destructive hysterical wing expresses their anger in the form of impotent and petty theatrics that alienate the moderates, the better. Without the human costs of the violent forms of extremism, they accomplish their job at fomenting cultural backlash which will in time, insh'allah, put an end to the nonsense. This is the kind of team sports I can get behind. Nothing got hurt but Sarah Sanders feelings and she must be made out of depleted uranium to have survived this long
I don't buy this argument.
There's not a large group of moderates who were going to vote Democrat, but then decided to support the other side because DeNiro said "fuck Trump" or a restaurant owner made Trump's press secretary leave her restaurant. This silly narrative of "the left has to be super duper nice or Trump's going to win again!!!" is parroted by a lot of mainstream people as well... I just don't see how it makes any sense.
Plus, you have the most divisive president in recent history alienating moderates every day. He constantly plays to his 30-something percent base.
This post was edited by IceMage on Jun 23 2018 03:51pm