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Old 09-28-2016, 11:56 AM   #160
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague View Post
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/op..._1=416629&_r=1

If only the lesson expressed in that article could be learned as a result of this debacle. Sadly, it absolutely will not be.
Hyperbolic predictions of doom have unfortunately been a part of political campaigning for as long as politics have existed. At least as far back as Ancient Rome.

Of course, the problem is not improved by people who want to tone down the rhetoric regardless of whether or not it's accurate.

Trump pretty obviously is racist, misogynist and possibly unhinged to the point of being genuinely dangerous. Sometimes those things are not hyperbole.

"Fascist" on the other hand does not IMO describe him. (It's one of those words that I feel Americans almost never use correctly. Then again it's a mostly European political movement, you luckily haven't really had that much literal fascism in your local politics.)
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