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Old 05-10-2016, 07:31 PM   #130
zeek
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Default Re: Politics and the Church

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Originally Posted by Ohio View Post
Why is a little nationalism such a bad thing?

We don't know what a Trump presidency will look like, but it seems it will be nasty talk and good decisions for the country. Unless we all have amnesia, we know what a Clinton presidency will look like. While she is promising us all the world, jobs are lost, illegal immigrants get a free lunch, 1st and 2nd amendment rights will vanish, scandals abound, political opponents die mysteriously, etc.
Trump's appeals to ultra-nationalism, his scapegoating of ethnic groups, his fear mongering to angry working-class voters and his presentation of himself as the strong man who can fix every problem [the man card] through the force of his will all have echoes of fascist political leaders of the past like Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco.
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