I am a regular listener of the 538 podcast, and Nate Silver repeatedly and emphatically has been saying, right up to this week, that in his view the race is *not *over.
Sadly, I think this is true. I mean, for the past eight years there’s been no cooperation or compromise between the two major parties, and that was before the Trumpocalypse. Now we have so much splintering and divisiveness within the Republican party that Humpty can’t be put back together. But even the broken pieces can probably work together enough to block everything Hillary proposes. It’s hard to picture how the next four/eight years will see anything except continued polarization.
Trump is going full-on Hitler tonight, even frightening his most influential supplicants, like Tony Suarez, Executive Vice President at TBN (Pat Robertson’s network), saying:
“Tonight’s proposal carries extreme consequences to people of faith and would virtually shut the doors of every immigrant congregation.”
“Extremely disappointed”
Trump immigration speech highlights:
There will be no amnesty for any “criminal undocumented immigrants”.
Every “criminal undocumented immigrant” will be deported in the first hour of his Presidency.
There will be a wall, and Mexico will pay for it.
Hillary might be deported.
Upon watching and reading that speech tonight, the Democratic Party would like to thank Donald Trump for the next three generations of Hispanic voters.
My bold.
Um…on what grounds? Is she a criminal undocumented immigrant?
It was a Trump joke. Ha ha ha, so funny.
I suppose it’s an improvement over calling for her to be assassinated.
I keep expecting him to “joke” about deporting President Obama, but for some reason he never does. Small mercies I guess.
Wow just wow. So is he claiming that Clinton is not a US citizen somehow? Because that’s the only possible way this is plausible even to someone with Trump’s tiny intellect. You can’t deport someone who has citizenship by birth.
I don’t think it was really a claim. He was talking about Hillary, he was talking about deportation, it all fused together and that’s what tumbled out.
And at least 20 percent of the voting population will support this man no matter what. The human race is doomed, really I don’t see much hope. Probably for the best overall.
Couldn’t Obama pardon himself on January 20, at 1159am?
Actually that would be hilarious. Obama pulls out a kenyan birth certificate and a pardon at 1 minute to midnight and goes “fooled you all!”. Mic drop.
The way politics are going in the US, I fear that the outgoing presidents of the future are going to need to pardon themselves and the losing candidate(s) in the election as their final act in office.
The US needs to split up into East Coast, West Coast and “Flyover land” or “Jesusland” as some people have suggested. East Coast and West Coast would move way more left wing, and they can have their backwards racist bigoted country in the middle. Or maybe East and West coast can invite Canada to join them in a union to make a contiguous nation. Either way.
Dear Mr Suárez:
- closing down immigrant congregations is part of the objective; not for him directly (he couldn’t care less), but for those people who believe that naming your child Jesús is taking God’s name in vain.
- he wants you out, too.
Rather ironic since Trump is only a 2nd Generation Immigrant himself. His grand father was German. But of course German’s are white enough for them. Nope nosiree, nothing racist in my policies at all! I take great pleasure in pointing out to racist idiots that Aryan’s are actually brown, originally they were from the Indian subcontinent and Persia (eg Iran)
This is exactly why he went to Mexico – it was a head fake and an attempt to at least convince a few of the “Uhhh, gee, like, who do I vote for” ignorant as piss moderate white voters. He’s trying to convince them that he actually could be a president – emphasis on could be.
Meanwhile he fires up the people who brought him to this dance. He does this first by completely and utterly humiliating the naive fool for a president that Mexico has in Nieto, and then he goes full into Trumpjugend mode a few hours later.
That’s what happens on the surface.
Below the surface, Bannon, Ailes, hacktivists, and Russia are working to eviscerate Hillary and her closer Democratic allies. I doubt we’ve even seen the half of it yet.
This is a very serious concern. If Hillary loses, it is entirely within the realm of possibility that she gets prosecuted by a highly DOJ.
Trump and the current GOP are threatening to trample on the idea of Constitutional democratic republicanism.