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Comments on Separated by a common language by russell

Re: Archie Bunker - when All In The Family first rolled out, some folks saw the Archie Bunker character as a bigoted clown, and some other folks (and not a small number) saw him as their kind of guy. A sort of folk anti-hero.

Plus ca change.

My own sense of what will make folks step away from supporting Trump is that there are two likely avenues:

1. Bad things are done to somebody they know and care about.
2. Discomfort with the egregious violence of the immigration stuff

It's possible that Minneapolis will be Trump's Selma. We'll see.

Props to the UK for at least finding it scandalous.

Here in the US it's more like a national exercise in "la la la la I can't hear you"