I dunno. They like him because he’s “alpha”–and “alpha” = sexually aggressive. Anyone that can project the level of sexual aggression that has inspired such ferocious response is almost certainly someone with a pattern of terrible behavior toward women.
To put it another way–the Donald Trump that didn’t treat women like this would never have been appealing enough to these people to get through the primaries. The thing they like comes from the same well as the behavior that is killing him now.
This is what I truly fear beyond Trump, whose candidacy already seems like it’s dead. Someone else could come along holding a crucifix and draped in an American flag.
I’m not so sure. It looks like Republican officials who had started to denounce Trump are signing back on, because Trump isn’t actually losing much support among Republican voters. They have decided to stick with him, despite his flaws.
What you guys are describing is a standard Republican, overall they are less dangerous than Trump and only very slightly more likely to win. Trump without the trumpiness is just Ted Cruz.
No, the problem is the Republican who now openly courts racist and sexist votes, openly advocates conspiracy theories, openly encourages violence against his opponents. That doesn’t go away when Trump goes away, and that’s very different from the standard Republican pre-Trump.
I tend to agree. I think a lot of the fanatic support for Trump is coming from people who feel they’ve had to live in hiding. They don’t just want to be racist and sexist - they want to be openly racist and sexist. Trump is telling them it’s not just okay to think terrible things; he’s telling people they can say them out loud like he does. That’s why every time Trump says something horrible, the general public is appalled - but his inner core of supporters loves him even more.
That’s correct. That’s why Trump won the nomination, he didn’t say “we need to do something about illegal immigrants,” he said “I’ll build a wall to keep out the Mexicans.”
He wrote the playbook and it worked, but he pulled a groin muscle. You just need a healthy QB.
You think that Male Trump supporters are going to be convinced to vote for Clinton by their Wife?
My thought is that with mail in ballots, it’s much more likely that in a household/marriage it is much more likely that both people will know for certain who the other is voting for. And, through intimidation, the Man may make the Wife vote for Trump.
That’s just Trump again and he was losing long before the sex predator stuff came out. It took Hillary getting tossed into a car like a sack of potatos to make the race close. You can’t get the Trump supporters without ending your chance at the general. Specially now that anyone who tries is going to be labeled the next Trump.
Whether or not that’s enough votes to win or lose an election here or there isn’t really the point. The point that he has fundamentally changed the society we live in. It’s now okay for 30-40 of the population to be openly racist and misogynistic and to threaten people who disagree with them with violence.
We no longer live in the same America that we lived in before Trump came down that escalator. We live in a meaner, uglier place where bullies are empowered to lash out. Trump may have lost the election, but he will have an impact on all of us beyond this election, and who knows how long it will be before we can swing the pendulum back.