"...there is a decent chance that the American experiment will be over."

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Gopnic in New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-dangerous-acceptance-of-donald-trump

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I think journalists are going a bit too far with this.  There's no way in hell Franz von Papen Paul Ryan is ever going along with 1930's Europe stuff, like repealing the civil rights act and granting Trump emergency powers.  The worst case scenario is Trump = Wilson on race, not Trump = Hitler.  It would certainly be remembered as an ugly, embarrassing episode in our history if the Trump DOJ looks the other way while e.g. Arizona removes all Spanish surnames from its voting rolls, or if it maintains an unofficial policy of refusing to prosecute violence against certain groups, but if the untimely demise of Reconstruction wasn't "the American experiment will be over" then Trump won't be either, even in the worst case. 

No chance, you say?

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The Left is in such denial about Obama that they are projecting all of his sins on Trump.

Given that you would not be able to distinguish democracy from scrambled eggs, seriously confuse America with a drunk mongoose, and have never been able to figure out which is left and which is right even when talking about your own hands, your opinion is of limited interest here, except in the antropological sense. Sentient human beings, though, I am asking to stop and think.