Wm. Rivers Pitt | Tuesday Night Massacre: The Looming Trump v. Clinton Debacle

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It is madness, but it is madness by design. The Republican Party and its media allies have spent several decades fomenting a sense of terror within their voting ranks … The Democrats, for their part, have been in full moral retreat over those same decades ...

By William Rivers Pitt  Truthout | Op-Ed  April 27, 2016

Hillary Clinton, a Democratic presidential hopeful, speaks to reporters outside Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary School, where she casted her ballot, in Chappaqua, N.Y., April 19, 2016. Clinton and Donald Trump are heavily favored to win Tuesday’s primaries in New York. (Eric Thayer / The New York Times)Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton speaks to reporters outside Douglas G. Grafflin Elementary School, where she cast her ballot, in Chappaqua, New York, April 19, 2016.
(Photo: Eric Thayer / The New York Times)

The surrealist painting that is this election season came into grim focus last night as the two big-money front-runners blew the doors off their respective rivals and came many steps closer to giving the “news” media the general election race they’ve been craving. Donald Trump won everything by margins so wide you could sail an aircraft carrier through…

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