"Or as bait to demonstrate how ignorant Trumpniks are about their old country's government."
You mean push a divisive agenda? What end could these statements really serve.
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The way this election went suggests Trump would have won. Obama's track record in dispatching his opponents in surprising upsets suggests Obama would have won. So what.
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What do we gain with shoulda, coulda, woulda? When did Obama start with these types of pointless conversations?