<div dir="ltr"><div>Those who think Trump will moderate his extremist illogical fact denying positions on many issues, now that the campaign is over with his "win," are in for some scary surprises, in my opinion, one example of which you just presented.</div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/10/the-worlds-newspapers-react-to-trumps-election-victory">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/10/the-worlds-newspapers-react-to-trumps-election-victory</a></div><div><br></div><div> <img class="gmail-maxed gmail-responsive-img" alt="The Sun and the Daily Mirror front pages on 10 November 2016" src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/37b942aca16873abcf59deeedfab4601acfe5504/3_0_3482_2089/master/3482.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=697a3a950b641874cc30303b806993c1"> <span class="gmail-inline-expand-image gmail-inline-icon gmail-centered-icon gmail-rounded-icon gmail-article__fullscreen gmail-modern-visible"> </span> <font color="#333333"> </font><figcaption class="gmail-caption gmail-caption--main gmail-caption--img"> The Sun and the Daily Mirror front pages react to the news that Donald Trump is the new US president-elect. </figcaption></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-AdaptiveMedia gmail-is-square"><div class="gmail-AdaptiveMedia-container gmail-js-adaptive-media-container"><div class="gmail-AdaptiveMedia-singlePhoto"><div class="gmail-AdaptiveMedia-photoContainer gmail-js-adaptive-photo"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-american-psycho_us_58244adae4b0aac6248934e1">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-american-psycho_us_58244adae4b0aac6248934e1</a></div><div class="gmail-AdaptiveMedia-photoContainer gmail-js-adaptive-photo"><br></div><div class="gmail-AdaptiveMedia-photoContainer gmail-js-adaptive-photo"><img alt="" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw432gPXUAEUQFM.jpg"></div><div class="gmail-AdaptiveMedia-photoContainer gmail-js-adaptive-photo"><h1 class="gmail-headline__title"><a class="gmail-custom-header__link" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/world"><font color="#2e7061">WORLDPOST </font></a></h1><h1 class="gmail-headline__title">French Newspaper Calls Donald Trump ‘American Psycho’</h1><h2 class="gmail-headline__subtitle">Trump was a hero of the novel’s protagonist.</h2><div class="gmail-timestamp"> <span class="gmail-timestamp__date--published">11/10/2016 07:46 am ET</span> </div><div class="gmail-timestamp"><br></div><div class="gmail-timestamp"><div class="gmail-content-list-component gmail-text"><p>Patrick Bateman, the antihero of the popular novel and movie “American Psycho,” is a successful Manhattan businessman who doubles as a serial killer. But President-elect <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/donald-trump/" target="_blank"><font color="#2e7061">Donald Trump</font></a> is the real-life American psycho, if you ask left-leaning French newspaper Libération.</p><p>Its Thursday front page features an image of Trump ― his face and body darkened, leaving nothing but his striking mop of hair and his right hand, thumb and forefinger pointed in the shape of a gun.</p><p>The title was likely intended as more of a catch phrase, since there are plenty of stark differences between the fictional Bateman and Trump. For one, Trump is not a serial killer. Nor was he an investment banker.</p><p><em>American Psycho</em> author Bret Easton Ellis has said that Bateman aspired to be Trump because the businessman was “an elitist” in the 1980s. The serial killer even praises Trump’s book, <em>The Art of the Deal,</em> in the novel. But Ellis told Rolling Stone in March that Bateman would not like the president-elect now, because he’s given a “<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/american-psycho-at-25-bret-easton-ellis-on-patrick-batemans-legacy-20160331?page=8" target="_blank"><font color="#2e7061">voice to white, angry, blue-collar voters</font></a>.”</p><p>Libération’s cover is also a nod to the way the future president has portrayed himself throughout his campaign, using <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-outrageous-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-latinos_us_55e483a1e4b0c818f618904b" target="_blank"><font color="#2e7061">xenophobic</font></a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18-real-things-donald-trump-has-said-about-women_us_55d356a8e4b07addcb442023" target="_blank"><font color="#2e7061">sexist</font></a> discourse to fire up crowds.</p><p>France is dealing with its own version of the Trump phenomenon. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/le-pen-trump_us_57c74883e4b0e60d31dd076c" target="_blank"><font color="#2e7061">Marine Le Pen</font></a>, head of the extreme far-right National Front party, has toed a similarly dangerous populist line.</p><p>She <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/extreme-right-wing-congratulate-donald-trump_us_5822d956e4b0d9ce6fbffa01" target="_blank"><font color="#2e7061">congratulated</font></a> him on his victory early Wednesday before it was even official, hailing his triumph as a “great movement.”</p><p>“I’m much less interested in my own political ascendancy than with the <a href="https://twitter.com/MLP_officiel/status/796447715387461632" target="_blank"><font color="#2e7061">future of my people</font></a>, my country,” she told French television channel France 2 on Wednesday. “The political elite is disconnected, it refuses to see and hear its people.”</p><p>Sound familiar?</p></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 1:03 PM, <a href="mailto:rhayes@frontier.com">rhayes@frontier.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rhayes@frontier.com" target="_blank">rhayes@frontier.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div id="m_2998873619558428994yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479149698017_9036"> With the naming of Steve Bannon to White House strategist, it's no longer a question of Trump receiving tacit support from the racist white supremacist right, he is proclaiming his radical racist beliefs. Idaho has been through this and eventually quelled (somewhat) these hate groups within our borders. Now the nation gets to see what that feels like. </div><div id="m_2998873619558428994yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479149698017_9035">Roger Hayes </div></div></div><br>==============================<wbr>=========================<br>
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