More Like 1920s Italian Politics Every Day
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
United States
April 22, 2016 3:29pm CST
I just read a report in "The Hill" that RNC leaders and Republican Convention delegates have been receiving death threats and promises of bloodshed at the convention if Trumpolini doesn't get the nomination. Now, there is no proof that these people are working at the behest of, or with the blessings of, the Trump campaign. Nor is there any record that Trumpolini or his spokespersons have repudiated or condemned the people making the threats.
Looks like we don't need a time machine and lessons in Italian to find out what it felt like to watch Italian politics at work in the 1920s. All we have to do is watch the Trump Campaign.
Do you think Trump is aware his followers are making death threats against delegates to the convention?
PS: The photo is from Pixabay and has nothing to do with the post. I just thought it might make @JolietJake feel better to spot some SPAM.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
23 Apr 16
Trumpolini has attracted some seriously radical right wing bigots and haters to his campaign. I'm not really surprised to read about things like this happening. It was The Donald himself that warned about riots if he didn't get the nomination on the first ballot.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Apr 16
Maybe only in America, @JudyEv.
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@JudyEv (382408)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Apr 16
@JamesHxstatic The crowds get pretty heated in our cities now too! We always used to say we were about 10 years behind the US. Maybe we're catching up! :)
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@LadyDuck (502722)
• Italy
23 Apr 16
Monday April 25 is Liberation Day in my country. It marks the fall of Mussolini's Italian Social Republic and the end of the Nazi occupation in Italy in 1945, towards the end of the second World War. When everything started it was not bad at all, but we know how it ended.
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@crossbones27 (53005)
• Mojave, California
22 Apr 16
Last I heard it was the Bernie Sanders protesters provoking the Trump supporters to act violently. I am not sure how they can explain this one.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
23 Apr 16
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Trump's followers had agitators among the Sanders supporters trying to foment the violence. Trump does not believe in the First Amendment, and doesn't like protesters because the point out the emptiness of his policies.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
22 Apr 16
I just don't know what to think anymore but it certainly keeps tv interesting. He couldn't possibly be elected could he??
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
28 Apr 16
I am sure he knows and he had better be finding a way to tamp down the eagerness to be violent that his out of control rhetoric has already sparked.
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@teamfreak16 (43650)
• Denver, Colorado
22 Apr 16
Judging from all I've read, it wouldn't surprise me at all that he knows.
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