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Originally Posted by sworkhard
Oh, so your saying that one person's rhetoric can never be enough to cause such an extreme reaction among the general populace to cause politicians to actually act on it.
If that's the case, why isn't that also true of Trump's hateful speech?
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Because it's not one person's rhetoric.
It's years of politicians using dog whistle rhetoric against immigrants and Muslims and blacks. Trump just skips the dog whistle and goes for the jugular instead. It's nearly two decades of thinly-veiled claims of Muslim=terrorist by GOP talking heads. It's years of villainizing undocumented immigrants. It's years of railing about black-on-black crime as if black people are just innately more violent, like the systemic racial issues in this country have nothing to do with the increased violence in their communities.
Trump is a very vocal mouthpiece for the same old crap that's been happening for
years coming from the Republican side of the aisle.
EDIT: So using your analogy, just as it would take years and years of solid research to prove how awful fracking is, possibly with one blockbuster study that pushes down the final domino that would end fracking, in this scenario you have decades of thinly-veiled vitriol from the Right attacking Mexicans, Muslims, Blacks, Women, etc. Trump is just that last blockbuster to push down the final domino to make all that thinly-veiled hate-speech okay.