The “cancer or heart attack” meme is dangerous and it’s not an accident
by digby
Republicans (and certain members of the media) are trying to “Trumpize” Clinton:
Major GOP donor Charles Koch is dead set on not choosing between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the presidential election.
“But if I had to vote for cancer or heart attack, why would I vote for either?” Koch told Fortune in an interview Monday.
Koch knows what he’s doing. He realizes Trump is probably going to lose and is just setting the table for Clinton’s win to be opposed as if she is an equally appalling threat to America, “Hitlery” made real.
Reality check: Clinton is a mainstream Democratic politician and not particularly dishonest or corrupt by mainstream politician standards. Compared to Trump she is a saint. He is literally a conman. She is smart, experienced and knowledgeable and he is … not. She’s also imperfect and will probably screw up in ways that will make us very unhappy. They all do, some more than others and she may end up being one of the bad ones. But she is not a mentally unbalanced, nationalist, authoritarian demagogue.
Just saying.
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