Vox: How We'd Report the 2nd Debate If It Were In Another Country

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    mawnck Well-Known Member

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    How we would cover the 2nd presidential debate if it happened in another country

    "Since the end of the country’s civil war in 1865, America has enjoyed an unbroken string of peaceful transitions of power. The country’s commitment to free elections and open political debate is a major part of the national mythos, revered nearly as much as the country’s most popular sport (a kind of gladiatorial combat known, bafflingly, as “football.”)

    By suggesting he would throw Secretary Clinton in jail, despite a state security agency having publicly announced that she has not broken the law, Mr. Trump has cast this commitment into doubt. He has taken his authoritarian leanings beyond the persecution of minority groups and is now targeting a member of the deeply entrenched ruling class, an elite dominated by the European majority ethnic group."​

    And so forth.
     
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    Very nicely done. And don't forget about his earlier "suggestion" that "second amendment people" could do something about Clinton if he lost the election. The fact that there is a large segment of the population that shrugs things like this off ought to scare the bejeezus out of the rest of us.
     
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    Haven't you heard? It was a "quip." He was kidding!?!o_O
     
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