[quote]smh_23 wrote:
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]cire13 wrote:
If Trump wins the nomination, you can say goodbye to the Republican party. Most American’s will look upon his nomination as a joke. The International community will do so as well. The Republican Party will spend years trying to regain its reputation. [/quote]
You’re a foreigner, aren’t you?[/quote]
He may be, but he’s dead right about this.
Donald Trump’s most recent foray into the political world, prior to this election cycle, consisted of a public push for birtherism. Birtherism was a conspiracy theory, no less clownish than any other. This is the GOP front-runner – a conspiracy theorist who, in the course of peddling his conspiracy theory, acted every bit the stupid, lying buffoon, claiming to believe (and this is just one example of many) that the newspaper announcements of Obama’s birth in Hawaii had been fraudulently planted. Claiming, too, that the investigators he allegedly sent to Honolulu “cannot believe what they’re finding.” (No word, as of yet, on the object of their disbelief, though he still says he doesn’t know whether Obama was born in the US.)
There is, of course, so much more: his inability to think or speak clearly about anything is so severe that he has a remarkably difficult time conveying lucid thoughts at even a middle-school level of communication (just recently, he found himself repeatedly unable to say whether or not he is in favor of registering Muslims via a national database); he obviously makes all his bullshit up on the fly and is utterly disinterested in anything remotely resembling policy (note that ZEB, as GOP-biased as any person of whom we can possibly conceive, has repeatedly called him a policy lightweight); he is the least masculine presidential candidate in American history, staying up all night in order to exclamation-point his way through one-sided Twitter catfights with Megyn Kelly.
The list goes on and on. But all I really need is that second paragraph above. (Somebody go ahead and try to refute a word of it.) Again: a conspiracy theorist is the Republican frontrunner. The stupid party is showing us that it is literally that.
Donald Trump is an idiot, and his supporters are – by definition – idiots. Complete, utter idiots. Every one of them. They are supporting a candidate who is unelectable – and unfit for the office – not as a matter of policy disagreement, not because he’s flip-flopped or lied (as every politician has since the dawn of cooperative civilization), but at the most fundamental possible level. He is not remotely close to winning the White House, and he never will be. But he has done two things: he’s damaged the Republican party, and he’s given those of us who are academically interested in such matters a general answer to the question “What percentage of GOP voters are truly, irredeemably stupid.”[/quote]
Really, really well-said. And as someone who won’t vote for Hillary (probably*) the truth is she would do far less damage to American honor than Trump would.
*Caveat: I’d never vote for Hillary on the basis of thinking she is someone I’d want as president in any era. But I’ve moved out of the camp of not voting for either a Trump or Hillary if those are my choices, and into the camp of considering a vote for divided government if someone like Trump becomes the GOP candidate. The damage done by a Trump administration with the help of a GOP-controlled Congress is a far worse outcome than a Hillary administration fighting with a GOP Congress for four years and only passing incremental bills. A vote for divided government is often a vote well cast when your only options are two different type of manure, as we seem to have today.
