Trump makes Bond villains look good by comparison.

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    I mean he got away with mocking mentally disabled people. His base eats it up.

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      Ableism is a huge systemic cultural issue, and like most other huge systemic cultural issues, Trump just exemplifies it. His entire ‘value’ lies in echoing condensed sound-bite versions of commonly-held antisocial beliefs. He’s an empty vessel of a person, a human-shaped Pandora’s box.

      All we can really do is name those beliefs and actively work against examples of them in our own spheres of influence.

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      Physically disabled. He mocked a physically disabled journalist, Serge Kovaleski, who has a degenerative joint condition.