Kinda feel like they’re making her point.
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Wait, all Trump ever said was “I disavow,” but he conveniently left out the direct object. Deep down, you know he has disavowed doodly-squat.
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No women or Latinos and just good old Ben Carson representing for the blacks.
It looks like a collection of, America’s Top Racists.
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I just don’t see how this helps them. This is a pretty good cast of real deplorables, in my view. Except maybe Ben Carson and only then because of the relative deplorability of the others.
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The Deplorables are real: http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/09/09/watch-msnbcs-katy-tur-shut-down-trump-advisers-attempt-downplay-trumps-birtherism/212982
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Great idea for drumpfly’s new reality show.
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Comicbook Alt-Right Schutzstaffel
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Apparently, you’ve not heard of Sociopath World.
And of course when Trump got support from his generals, he had 88. Not 87, not 89. The number 88 is very significant to white supremacists. The eighth letter of the alphabet is H. 88 stands for Heil Hitler. It’s a subtle way of recognizing brothers in arms without calling attention to your self.
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They did a novelization of Dune? Is it as good as the movie?
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I am assuming that’s sarcasm, the original book is a classic, the follow-ups vary. Te movies where awful rising to mediocre.
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That’s harsh.
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Faux outrage just for the optics, and the media was all too happy and fully willing to play along.
And doing lasting damage to our democracy even with a loss. This bar-lowering could lead to Ted Nugent being the GOP frontrunner in 2020. 
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He “made the cut” when he exited the womb. Tuck Frump and his demon spawn.
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Pepe is NOT a racist meme. B
Massive kudos to you for the insight that the Born-Again Movement is much younger than I thought. I’d always thought that it went back to Darby (at least, since it’s a nigh-ubiquitous stock feature of the rapturist worldview), but now I know (via you and a Google search that gave me the Oxford English Dictionary entry) that it goes back no earlier than 1961. Thanks again! 
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I’m referring specifically to the group that founded Calvary Chapel. It started in Riverside, CA in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Others may have used the term before, but the strand of history I experienced is the one that morphed into the rightwing evangelical movement of today – Calvary Chapel, YWAM, the 700 Club (an early sign of the corruption that would eventually overtake it), and eventually on to homeschooling and Jesus Camp in Missouri, which is where most of my family (still deeply involved in it) now live.
This strand was an outgrowth of the Jesus Freak movement, which in turn was a sort of less-radical version of the Hippie movement. We (yes I was in it too initially – front-row seat) held simple candlelight services with homegrown music and tried to recapture the spirit of early Christianity. The phenomenally gifted musician Debby Kerner lived walking distance from my parents’ home. She provided musical expressions of harmony and peace. Her compelling, hypnotic music created something very close to an escapist, commune experience for those of us too young to run away to Big Sur. Eventually, there was a shift. One day she arrived with a new song – The Horsemen. It set the stage for a shift to darker tones. About that time, the simple gatherings became services in their own right – services held in our local Baptist church. Speaking in tongues was introduced. The darker tones of us against them, fears and conspiracy theories grew until they dominated. I left; my family stayed. Services moved to Calvary Chapel not long after, and the rest is well-known history.
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I’m referring specifically to the group that founded Calvary Chapel. It started in Riverside, CA in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Others may have used the term before, but the strand of history I experienced is the one that morphed into the rightwing evangelical movement of today – Calvary Chapel, YWAM, the 700 Club (an early sign of the corruption that would eventually overtake it), and eventually on to homeschooling and Jesus Camp in Missouri, which is where most of my family (still deeply involved in it) now live.[/quote]
All this happening during the 60s and 70s is yet more evidence that the religious right is just a veiled reactionary white supremicist reaction to the Civil Rights Movement (the veil serving the dual role of avoiding media scrutiny and conning the naive, anxious, and very young into going along with them). And explains why HO has any evangelical support at all, and the latter group of the conned tag-alongers is also why he’s fracturing that part of the base (though the media is sure doing all they can to help the GOP in its efforts to slow and obscure that fracturing).
Also, I have a suspicion that any group that used the term earlier than who you were talking about, were at least an affiliated group to the ones you mentioned. I had to Google YWAM, and found out it formed in 1960, so that’s very probable.
[quote=“socalista, post:38, topic:43276, full:true”]
This strand was an outgrowth of the Jesus Freak movement, which in turn was a sort of less-radical version of the Hippie movement. We (yes I was in it too initially – front-row seat) held simple candlelight services with homegrown music and tried to recapture the spirit of early Christianity.[/quote]
Yeah, I have some experience with what these groups became by the turn of the millennium myself, when I was an adolescent about half my life ago now (wow, is that longer ago than it feels). They had a very skewed, revisionist understanding about what “early Christianity” was like. They’d organize beneficial service projects for the poor, but also rail against public policy that would actually reduce poverty, even though those policies are far less radical than what the early Christians regularly practiced. #sigh#
Yeah, darker and more conspiratorial as the culture changed; further confirms the revanchism (h/t to Josh for introducing me to that term) and reactionaryism I referred to above. And is happening again (or maybe not “again”, but has been pushed into overdrive) now. :-/ As Twain (possibly^) said, “history tends to rhyme”.
^This is a paraphrase, but a quick search for the exact wording of the original reveals that the actual attributed quote is itself a very loose paraphrase.
The actual quote appears to be this: “History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.”
I think the shorter one involving “rhyming” is better. 
as deplorable as the guys in the Trump commercial are they are the wrong set of “Deplorables” The video below shows the “Deplorables” that can fill several baskets and a truck or two.