And at the economic roots:
38) In the mid-1980s, as Trump began laundering Russian mob money, Bill and Hillary Clinton sold the Democratic Party to Goldman Sachs and Wall Street;
38) The Clintons' "New Democrats" escalated the Drug War, trashed the poor, gutted Wall Street regulations, perpetrated NAFTA, expanded the death penalty, launched a racist attack against rapper Sister Soulja, imposed "three strikes and you're out," bombed Yugoslavia over the objections of local nonviolent activists, and more;
39) The Clintons inherited two of history's hugest financial windfalls -- the end of the Cold War and the computer revolution -- but rather than pursue social justice, they accelerated the shift of wealth from the general population to the super-rich, whose ranks they soon joined;
40) Through eight years in office, the Clintons failed to enact a single lasting program to benefit America's working/middle class, helping set the stage for Trump's fake populism (they did, however, spark a national debate on oral sex);
41) Nearly all Congressional Dems supported George W. Bush's repressive Patriot Act and his destabilizing attack on Iraq;
42) Despite two full terms in office, except for Obamacare, Barack Obama enacted no major lasting programs to benefit America's working/middle class, thus accelerating the gap between rich and the rest of us, and further setting the stage for Trump's fake populism;
43) BY CONTRAST: Facing a massive bank-based financial crisis in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt confronted the banks, won meaningful reforms, and enacted New Deal social programs that built a grassroots Democratic Party base that lasted a generation;
44) Facing a massive bank-based financial crisis in 2009, Barack Obama handed the bankers (who, thanks to the Clintons, now owned the Democratic Party) a fake money bailout in the range of $7,000,000,000,000, demanded no meaningful reforms, massively accelerated the gap between the rich and the rest of us, and enacted (except for Obamacare) no significant programs to aid the American working/middle class, thus prompting the formation of the Tea Party, and paving the way for Trump's fake populism;
45) While kinda/sorta withdrawing from Iraq, Obama prolonged our worthless war in Afghanistan's "Graveyard of Empires," killing thousands and wasting trillions, helping to pave the way for Trump's fake populism;
46) Primarily to protect the petro-dollar, Obama and Secretary of State Clinton assaulted Libya, slaughtered its Prime Minister, and further destabilized North Africa and the Middle East across to Afghanistan, pushing millions into a mass migration that's now destabilized much of Europe;
47) As America's first African-American president, Obama did little for communities of color, heightening economic tensions and paving the way for Trump's manipulative bigotry;
48) While establishing the Dreamer Program, Obama perpetrated mass deportations, paving the way for Trump's own horrific assault on the Hispanic community;
49) Constitutional lawyer Obama's illegal attacks on whistleblowers paved the way for Trump's repressive apparatus today;
50) Despite his green rhetoric, Obama's "all of the above" energy policies slowed the transition to a 100% renewable-based Solartopian energy supply that could have provided jobs for millions more Americans while accelerating the fight against climate change;
51) Despite gargantuan losses sustained by the nuke power industry, and its role as a major source for global warming, Obama's frail support for renewables, and his $8.3 billion guaranteed federal loan to America's last reactor project -- at Vogtle, Georgia -- set the foundation for Trump's "I love coal and nukes" bailouts to come;
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