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Tonight's installment of the HBO show was a look back at Trump's first year in office. It wasn't flattering.
Most telling was a Frank Luntz focus group in Philadelphia that matched well with the widely shared one he had in Birmingham, Alabama ahead of the special senatorial election just over a month ago. The room of Trump voters displayed much of the same cultish behavior and groupthink. They admitted their slavish devotion to FOX News. They lashed out bitterly at the two members who found fault in the current POTUS.
Luntz also got them to hint at their omnipresent racial lens without them understanding what was said.
More telling was what Luntz said afterward to the reporter. The pollster who has been a foot soldier and manipulator for the GOP for years said he sees Trump poisoning our political system in a way he is afraid we cannot fix. He also said there's a strong chance the House and Senate will flip Democratic in 2018 and Trump has absolutely no idea what he will face when that happens.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)writes the GOP talking points. Wow,old Frankie is seeing his meal ticket disappearing.
misanthrope
(7,436 posts)with the people in that focus group then admonish them for their myopia and obstinance.
PoiBoy
(1,542 posts)pecosbob
(7,550 posts)the right wing created this hyper-partisan environment and were enabled by the corporate media at every step along the way.
superpatriotman
(6,255 posts)Hillary didn't even need to be in the room. They're nutty as fruitcakes.
misanthrope
(7,436 posts)"Why are you talking about Obama? He's not president anymore. What does he have to do with this?"
I think that's about when one woman blurted out something about "demographics" and Luntz tried to lead her by the hand to make her realize she was expressing fear of non-white majority.