Shame on Y Combinator
Posts like this play <i>directly</i> into Trump&#x27;s hands. The entire Trump ideology is based on a belief that &quot;real Americans&quot; are being oppressed by a sinister &quot;global elite&quot;. Demanding that Trump supporters be fired tells everyone that the &quot;elites&quot; are a) scared of Trump, b) can&#x27;t win through arguments and have to resort to intimidation, and c) are a powerful, dangerous group which is hostile to average people, who need someone to protect them from this sinister force. Which is all, of course, exactly what Donald Trump wants them to believe.<p>Daily newspapers have endorsed Clinton by a margin of 147 to 2. It should be obvious, over a year after the Trump campaign started, that anyone voting for Trump isn&#x27;t going to be dissuaded by yet another article calling him racist. Indeed, I think many Trump supporters back him <i>because</i> of all the articles calling him racist. &quot;They&quot; must be scared of Trump (the logic goes), or else &quot;they&quot; wouldn&#x27;t spend so much effort attacking him, so Trump must be the only &quot;truly independent&quot; candidate who will &quot;fight the system&quot;.<p>If you don&#x27;t believe me, look at eg. this comment on &#x2F;r&#x2F;The_Donald, which was voted up to #1 on a recent Peter Thiel article:<p>&quot;True story. I once hung out with a group of lesbians (most my friends are male), and when they found out I didn&#x27;t agree with them politically, they told me they were taking away my dyke card. Thankfully there are a LOT of gays who give no fucks about the &#x27;lgbtqjseflelkf community&#x27;, and just live their lives like anyone else. This article is nothing more than typical democrat tactics. &#x27;YOU&#x27;RE NOT A REAL &lt;insert minority&gt; UNLESS YOU DO WHAT WE SAY.&#x27; REMEMBER IF TRUMP WEREN&#x27;T A REAL THREAT, THEY WOULDN&#x27;T BE THIS DESPERATE.&quot; (emphasis in original)<p>The same tactics have been used against Trump over and over and over, for more than a year now, and his support is still pretty much where it was during the summer. Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over and over, and expecting different results.