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You really think there would have been millions of people out protesting? Somehow I doubt it.



Whether you are a Trump supporter or not, it's difficult to suggest that he is not radically different than other politicians and tremendously polarizing. Some see that as a sign of much needed change and other see it as a potential threat to democracy. Clinton was seen as largely a continuation of politics as normal so it would seem unlikely that there would have been large protests - perhaps more Tea Party protests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests) or an increased presence at the existing standing conservative marches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Life_(Washington,_D.... etc).


Who said anything about protesting? Either way, yea, I doubt there'd be as big of a protest (there would still be a lot, remember the tea party?) because H was an actual rational candidate who may have had some questionable views but didn't insult war heroes, slander entire ethnicities, and brag about sexual assault? It's pretty obvious why Trump is unpopular and why people are protesting him. I don't really see the point of your comment other than to stir up nothing. Are you really trying to have a discourse about this? Somehow I doubt it.


> I don't really see the point of your comment other than to stir up nothing.

She was running on a campaign of starting a war with Russia. If you see sending mostly poor folks from cities and the Bible Belt over to die in Syria or wherever as being 'nothing' then I have no problem stirring that up.

We certainly shouldn't condone Trump's comments about women. But if you think his comments magically erase, say, the Clinton's role in the HIV epidemic then I think you're drinking the Kool-Aid. So yeah, I protested Trump, and if Clinton had won I'd be protesting her also.


>But if you think his comments magically erase, say, the Clinton's role in the HIV epidemic then I think you're drinking the Kool-Aid.

Never said anything like that. I have no love for hillary and did not vote for her but dude get over it. Anti-Hillary people are actually like stalkers and they can't seem to just let it go. She lost, she's not the problem right now. Please stop making every Trump thing into a Trump vs. Clinton thing


I think we wouldn't have seen millions protesting because Trump supporters were overwhelmingly not from cities. Where it is much easier to get hundreds of thousands together.


And yet, there were hundreds of protests in small cities across the country for the Woman's March. Here's one from Alabama: http://wkrg.com/2017/01/21/womens-march-mobile-draws-hundred...


The Tea Party got a large turnout after Obama was elected - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_protests


Overwhelmingly not from cities?

62% of the US population lives in cities. Trump got 46% of the popular vote. What you are saying is just barely mathematically possible and most likely untrue.


Were you dead during the Obama years? Did you not see millions of people protesting? Remember the Tea Party?




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