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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
Over the last couple of days I've calmed down and tried to understand why people voted the way they did. The Michael Moore video describing how Trump was literally the only mainstream politician who even gave lip service to the rust belt I found very interesting and poignant. It provided me additional empathy for those people that voted for Trump.
However, those are not the people that were at the Trump rallies yelling "lock her up" or "execute her". Those are not the people who spew racist, xenophobic, sexist, vile, ignorant things.
Trump has given a mandate to these idiots, whether he meant to or not. Just like many on the right like to say that moderate Muslims should be standing up to extremists, moderate Trump supporters who aren't idiots but legitimately hurting need to stand up to these clowns.
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More fearmongering. You guys realize the laws have not changed and that hate crimes today are tolerated no more than they were before the election. This immediate aftermath of the election is only a short term effect. It's not like a large portion of the US population that wasn't Aryan nations two days ago are all going to convert because Trump is president.