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13 years ago this week a right-wing anti abortion group called operational rescue, emailed its members encouraging them to participate in the special hollowing contest. it was known as the nancy pelosi and harry reid burn in hell competition. yes, really. operation rescue included a video showing step-by-step how you could make your very own nancy pelosi and harry reid effigy. they even showed you how to burn the effigy once you made it. the whole thing was supposedly a protest about abortion related aspects of the affordable care act. the winner of the contest would receive an all expense paid trip to d. c. just burn that effigy. i m not showing you this because the contest was particularly impactful in anyway. it wasn t. this was a fringe group in 2009 taking dangerous political rhetoric about political figures like reid and pelosi to a new and discussing extreme. but the fact that there were not mass effigy burning across the country is not the point. the worry is ....
I don t know. i m not smart enough to do the whole analysis of this, honestly. all i know is what i feel on the ground. and what i feel on the ground is, there are people who are absolutely un gettable. they are in that small group of people. and maybe it is 30 or 35% of the electorate. but they are ungettable. and then there is a group that is, like, they voted for trump because the system is broken for them, whether it s the economic system, the retirement system, the health care system, the education system, they have a level of frustration. and they felt like this independent guy from the outside, who is rich and famous, maybe he was the guy, after 40 years, maybe he was the guy who could fix it. and so those voters are open to a guy like me who says, look, i agree with me on trump on some of the china stuff, i agree with not the rhetoric, but the policy of, we have got to be firm and outcompete china. ....