Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "Trump's American Carnage: Bob Corker (interview) | FRONTLINE" video.

5 years ? Where did you live before ? Did you not notice the rebellion withing the GOP electorate ? The Tea Party ? The anti-establishment sentiment mounting since Sarah Palin ?
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@davidethompson1271 I agree that one can include Gingrich into the chain of events. I disagree that there is some vast right wing conspiracy. I rather view the dynamics as a result of Dems abandoning the economically lower 30-40 % of the nation, unless they were/are of color (in which case Dems somehow demagogically relate nearly every problem to racism). Needless to say establishment GOP was not the spokesman of the "average American" anyway. The Tea Party and now Trump is not cause, but effect of the delegitimization of the interests of the white lower / lower-medium income classes. Now a vast part of this population has lost the faith in the system as such. The USA is facing a rebellion against the establishment, this time from the cultural Right, unlike the 1960s when it came from the Left.
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"Lie" implies that the person stating something KNOWS that it is not true. That most obviously is not always the case. People sometimes state something which they sincerely believe to be true, yet which it isn't.
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@TheWhoIsThat So use this knowledge. Most voters today in one or another way were influenced by what has happened 15-25 years ago. For some strange reason many Americans seem to think that what is further back than say 5 years somehow is irrelevant to us humans , whose average life span is 70+ years. And whose culture transports issues and emotions over centuries.
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