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"Trump is hell bent on destroying America from within"

No he isn't. Those kind of ridiculous hyperbolic statements don't help anything.

You may disagree with Trump's policies and platform. But "intent on destroying America" is a silly charge. And it is equally silly when (as often happens) it is leveled at the left.



I'm just looking at the evidence of the last two weeks and that's my conclusion. That he thinks he's doing something positive I'll believe but the end result is going to be a very large net-negative, the longer this goes on unchecked the worse it will get.

What you think is hyperbole is merely extrapolation from the last two weeks over a period of four years. You'll see a world order remarkably different than the present one, one in which America's role will be greatly diminished and where the American economy will be much smaller than it is today or even worse.

It's about May 1914, time is running out to get the train back on the rails before momentum will take over.


>It's about May 1914

June 28, 1914 was the day Franz was murdered. Before that day there weren't really any more danger of a war in Europe than there were the year before.

It was a wildcard and nobody predicted what would happen it could have happened 10 years before and it could have happened 10 years later. Had there been a couple decent diplomats left in Europe the war could have been avoided. Had the Moltke plan been followed maybe Germany really would have won early. Too many variables to predict.

In summary, please don't compare this to 1914, it makes no sense.


In 1914 the world was a powderkeg and Franz Ferdinand's murder was the spark that lit the fuse.

> Had there been a couple decent diplomats left in Europe the war could have been avoided.

Cf Trumps twitter feed.


Isn't Trump a wildcard? It was pretty hard to predict his electoral victory at any point before he actually won.




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