Milo, IMO we should automatically assume that any policy from the Left in this country works to the destruction of the Republic - as we have known it. after all, Obama did not mince words, he stated again and again that he was working towards a fundamental transformation of this country. many assumed that he just wanted to change health care delivery, but really he means much more than that. Obama and his followers want to fundamentally transform the US into a 3rd world multilingual, multicultural nation. look to Brazil - that is the future that Obama envisions for the US.
many did...but Obama's greatest trick was making so many people believe he was whatever they wanted him to be.."Hope and Change" was vague enough for people to put their own dreams into it. Some thought he meant he would make the country 'post racial' or turn Washington around to congeniality and cooperation, he'd stop the corruption (remember how he promised to not let lobbyists set agenda?)...it was all a big snake oil show.
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and this all is why there are many of us that distrust the same rhetoric coming from our side from Trump. Words are cheap....and we have learned from hard experience to watch carefully for misleading information.