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Aaron Gabriel Neyer's avatar

I appreciate what you're doing but I think you miss the mark when you continue describing Trump as an anti-establishment candidate. His interest seems to be in controlling the establishment rather than dismantling it. Your last point that Kamala is part of the establishment and is therefore unable to actually embody these principles suggests to me a major distortion in how you're looking at this; a separation you have drawn between yourself and your in group and this idea of "Establishment", an idea that I'm not convinced is rooted in an effective understanding of how structures emerge from social relationships.

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Keri Mangis, The Power Source's avatar

You suggest trump sit down with groups of people to listen with curiosity and compassion. May I suggest he start with the Central Park Five, who he terrorized? Or the women he raped/sexually assaulted? The children he separated, how about he sit with them? The Haitian immigrants in Ohio, who he had now put in real danger? Charles, this man had created real and devastating harm. It’s not media-created. It’s not exaggerated or caricatured. Because you personally have not been his target, it seems, you can look beyond these things. But for those he has targeted, they have no such option.

No he will not change. No, he cannot change. And, as another commentator said, he is no outsider, either. Pull the blinders off.

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