# Donald Trump: the least hateful and bigoted candidate (in one area) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 10, 2016, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-least-hateful-and-bigoted-candidate-in-one-area/754461 "2016-05-10T03:16:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-least-hateful-and-bigoted-candidate-in-one-area/754461/21 "2016-05-11T17:18:03Z")
To be fair to Trump (eww!) that was his first contest ever. I think even he has learned a bit from the early primaries. I don’t expect him to trash states individually, he’ll probably indiscriminately toss a large ball of wadded up vitriol towards the whole country after losing ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-least-hateful-and-bigoted-candidate-in-one-area/754461/22 "2016-05-11T20:47:24Z")
That’s probably true. Although if he were to undergo a scenario like Gore did in 2000 (lose a crucial state by a handful of votes, with local, opposite-party government heavily involved), he might get more specific in his vitriol. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-least-hateful-and-bigoted-candidate-in-one-area/754461/23 "2016-05-12T01:54:45Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > But Trump saw opportunity. He defended New York against Ted Cruz in a primary debate, and one feels that, if called to do so, he would happily pour out praise on Alabama . . . But, it’s not the same. So far as regional cultures go, New York is to some limited extent objectively praiseworthy and Alabama is not, is it? Unless we’re going by BBQ. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-least-hateful-and-bigoted-candidate-in-one-area/754461/24 "2016-05-12T02:12:04Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > … I don’t expect him to trash states individually, he’ll probably indiscriminately toss a large ball of wadded up vitriol towards the whole country after losing Yes, but there will be a short delay while he accuses the Democrats of rigging the votes with the active support of the Republican establishment, painting the scenario that both Democratic and Republican establishments ganged up on poor Donald in order to thwart the clear and obvious Will of the People™, because clearly and obviously everyone wanted the short-fingered vulgarian to be the next President of the United States. There may also be suggestions of Mexican rapists and Muslim terrorists getting in on the act, conspiring to rig the votes because they fear The Donald. After that he will wait a bit and when nothing happens to reverse the vote, he will verbally trash the entire country, launch lawsuits against any journalists who opposed him, and retire back into private life as a real estate swindler. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-least-hateful-and-bigoted-candidate-in-one-area/754461/25 "2016-05-12T03:01:56Z")
> [@Sam\_Lowry](#): > > I saw Cruz’s remark was to basically to say how liberal New Yorkers are, and paint Trump as not being conservative enough. I didn’t really see it as hateful, but it seems that New Yorkers certainly did. Yes, but: ISTM it was his “you know what I mean, don’t you” wink-wink vibe when saying “New York Values” to the Iowans while failing to specify exactly about what when called on it, that got the New Yorkers rankled up. It was an _“if you’re gonna accuse me of something unsavory, come out and say what is it”_ kind of reaction. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-least-hateful-and-bigoted-candidate-in-one-area/754461/26 "2016-05-12T04:33:32Z")
> [@ITR\_champion](#): > > But beyond merely appearing in places where the other candidates don’t go, Trump took advantage of the attitudes that the candidates have towards certain states, such as Hillary [saying](http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/10/hillary_clinton_alabama_remain.html#incart_river_mobileshort) that “Alabama is living through a blast from the Jim Crow past” . . . Of course, your claim is nonsense when one actually reads the text of the linked article. Clinton said nothing about the people of Alabama. She pointed out that the effect of the actions of the governor are causing the state to rehash old, bad policy. She then ended the article with a note that Alabama was poised to reverse that trend if the people chose to do so. Comparing that to Trump’s hateful claim that “Mexico” was “sending” rapists into the U.S. makes no sense. Even the line you quoted says nothing as hateful or asinine as Trump’s rhetoric. (Actually, while she has failed to impress me with much of her statements, she has very clearly indicated that the people who have flocked to Trump are encouraged by their life situations, not any inherent hatred or stupidity. Your claim (in this context about this candidate) is bullshit.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-the-least-hateful-and-bigoted-candidate-in-one-area/754461.md?page=1)