# How Trump can lose and stay on. Opinions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 17, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-trump-can-lose-and-stay-on-opinions/834091 "2019-05-17T01:22:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-trump-can-lose-and-stay-on-opinions/834091/12 "2019-05-17T16:58:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Are you claiming that you didn’t use to refer to them as “Democrats”, switching to “Dems” later in your posting history, and most recently “dems”? I use all three interchangeably. For example, here’s a post from 2012 where I use “Dems”: > [@The second presidential debate: 10/16/2012](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-presidential-debate-10-16-2012/637847/599): > > Dems now complaining about poll over-sampling? And here’s one from a few days ago using “Democrats” > [@Trump's about to go into a foreign policy death spiral.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-about-to-go-into-a-foreign-policy-death-spiral/833905/31): > > I suppose he’s making the point that only a relatively small % of our population serve in the military. but the same sort of accusation could be made against, for example, Democrats: > > "Of course, the vast majority of [Obama] supporters haven’t and don’t intend to volunteer for the military, so many of them won’t have any qualms about " fighting in Libya, or Somalia, or Syria, Yemen, or Iraq, or Afghanistan, or Pakistan. > > Looked at in that light, it (iiandyiii’s lame chickenhawk-ish argument) loses most of its relevance. Are you upset about the lower-case “d”? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-trump-can-lose-and-stay-on-opinions/834091)._