USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: MR. Trump Learns to Count (larger)

Pulled a rabbit out of his hat did you say?

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Friday, 26 August 2016 21:10:32 UTC+2, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) Gloria wrote:
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> Mr Trump spent the most part of  the 2016 electoral year, demonizing minority groups and calling them names.  Mexicans, African Americans,  Latinos,
> Muslims,  and other  groups in between,  were  deemed to be either undesirable or flawed human beings in one respect or another, as defined by him -  fully dispensable   in the  American political equation. Trump's campaign became a campaign of  insults and
>  hostility,  a fact  that endeared him to the KKK and other hate groups - anxious to have "their" man in the White House at all cost. Mr. Trump apparently disavowed some of them..
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> But  some onlookers and critics took a hard look at his campaign strategy and wrote off the presidential hopeful as an inevitable loser. In a democratic
> election,  every voter counts. How can he win the election by  demonizing a large chunk of the electorate, many of whom saw his competitor Hillary Clinton, as  relatively more inclusive and friendly towards  the so-called "minority" groups  - who in reality
> would become the majority, by the middle of the century.
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> But in one of the most glaring reversals in the history of American  electoral campaigns, Trump pulled a rabbit out of his hat and pivoted.  Speaking
> with a rather contrived  and hypocritical  tone of appeal,  the candidate now wanted "Afreecan Amerekans"  to come over to his side.   "What do you have to lose," he shouted in desperation, unable to fake his electoral anxiety and  exasperation. All of a sudden,
> the stone the builder refused was now to be retrieved from the dump site. This would also appeal to  some suburban white women who felt that his race baiting needed a lighter touch. Mr. Trump  had finally learnt to count.
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> Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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> vimeo.com/user5946750/videos
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> Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries on
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