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21021 Re: Is Trump America writ large
   I disagree. Some Democrats seem rational, sensible and moral. They a...
xcslewis   ALEA   08 Feb 2017
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   At the same time, I think that he gives expression to issues which man...
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Re: Is Trump America writ large

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Wed, 08 Feb 17 5:35 PM
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I agree.

There appear to be two Americas. One of them seems rational and sensible and moral. The other is ideological and emotional and unpredictable.

But they are surely elements of the same whole.

He is the pure and unrestrained id of America. To get him under control perhaps suggests the need for an American super-ego. But I am not sure what that is. The courts, perhaps.