# So, this is what it looks like before the war.

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**Created:** [November 19, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-this-is-what-it-looks-like-before-the-war/772407 "2016-11-19T07:25:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-this-is-what-it-looks-like-before-the-war/772407/13 "2016-11-19T12:44:21Z")

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> [@foolsguinea](#):
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> I am struck by how many people are living in a fool’s paradise, talking about this election like it’s just another election. The news speak happily of the orderly transfer of power. Jon Stewart says he’s not worried; after all, Nixon didn’t like Jews and used slurs in private, and somehow that’s the same in Jon’s mind as someone having actively promised mass deportations on the campaign trail. Dave Chappelle said he’d “give him a chance.”
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> Let’s be clear. Trump ran as a political racist from Day One. He is still talking about _immediately_ deporting or incarcerating 2 million people.

Oh, for crying out loud.

I just watched a campaign, an _election,_ where (a) one side stood up and made the wacky assertion that we should treat lawbreakers like lawbreakers, and (b) the other side said, _whoa, hold on; that’s a really tough question._

And even now – after the folks on the side of mere tautology won – you can’t bring yourself to launch into the rest of some parade of horribles without making sure your go-to rallying cry, the first thing on your tongue to deride a comparison to Nixon, the italicized ‘detail’ half of a general ‘racist’ barb, the attention-getter chosen _twice_ from among all others to kick off the first post of a thread, is _oh, no, you guys; he said he’s gonna treat lawbreakers like lawbreakers! Can you imagine?_

You still _open_ with that, for a running start at ‘bigot’ and ‘Nazis’ and ‘Hitler’?

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