I certainly didn’t intend it as such. In my post, it was synonymous with “I don’t know where you read / heard that”, but I’ll avoid using the phrase in the future.
What does “prevent a slide towards the normalization of …” even mean? How would that look, if you were successful in that moral duty? Would we just sit around and tell each other that “Trump’s not a normal politician” while he fills Supreme Court vacancies and builds a wall?
It will look as the current example of closing the door to people that already were living in America and for all intentions vetted already. Allowing that to stand with no complaints is what leads to the normalization/acceptance of other very stupid policies for America. For a populist it is pandering indeed to a large alienated element of a population… by alienating another in this case. Even Bush the lesser did not go that low.
As per the current example, do not just stand there, call your congress critters to tell Trump that this is not a good idea and if it continues that then less support will come his way for his big ideas. If the congress critter is just an enabler of the president tell the congress critter that he/she then will be the one gone in the next mid term.
Right! Back in those halcyon days of yore for which you so often hunger we were all unified and the “niggers,” “kikes,” “wops,” “spics,” “Polacks,” “rubes,” and such knew better than to make a fuss that would interrupt our unity.
The anger displayed by those opposing Trump occasionally goes overboard, but given that most of those people are reacting to the images and violence that Trump explicitly expounded in his political rallies, your claim that it is the fault of his opponents is just silly.
The notion that “Political Correctness,” (the effort to get people to stop referring to every non-white, non-straight, or non-male person using slurs), has caused the discord is ludicrous.
You haven’t been paying attention if you think political correctness stops at “get[ting] people to stop referring to every non-white, non-straight, or non-male person using slurs”.
I stand corrected…As GIGObuster pointed out, what I said applied to the 2012 election, not 2014 or 2016. However, in those latter two cases, the split in the popular vote in favor of the Republicans was considerably smaller than the resulting split in seats won.
My point about the Presidential vote and my overall conclusion (“So, the actual facts are that we have a very closely divided country on the national level…and Republicans who have benefited strongly from the way that population is distributed”) still hold.
[And, for what it’s worth, I didn’t really take your correction as an accusation of lying, but rather that I had my facts wrong, which I did on the Congressional voting.]