Yeah, what harsh attacks on Trump in the primaries? The other candidates treated him with kid gloves, figuring he’d eventually burn out or bow out thus leaving his supporters up for grabs.
Why is it terrifying? It seems logical that people are sick of a political class that lives by no rules.
… so they decide to support an unethical, rude, ignorant business guy who lives by no rules.
Makes perfect sense.
I agree that this is the primary motivation of the plurality of Trump supporters.
If they succeed in electing him, they will learn that electing an amateur outsider isn’t going to get them any of the things they want. Something similar would have happened if Bernie was elected President.
This whole theory of the amateur-outsider would be put to the test and be found to be incorrect. Eventually people will come around to the recognition that the problem isn’t the political class or big corporations. The problem is party-based ideological polarization that has kneecapped the federal government’s power to respond to big problems in an era of rapid technological change and globalization. That doesn’t get changed or ameliorated by throwing people like Donald Trump at the problem. In fact, it makes it worse–and that’s true regardless of whether you like his cultural or policy ideas.
No, they won’t.
Some will, some won’t. But on balance, it will start to swing the pendulum toward explanations for Washington’s malfunction other than “we need an outsider President.”
Yes it does, oddly enough.
That Trump is doubling down on his insistence that the judge in the Trump U case should resign because of his ethnicity gives me hope for a possible meltdown.
Pols do live by rules. And Trump has broken every one of them.
If Hillary keeps insulting him, he’s going to blow up. I’ve been wrong with about every idea about Trump and this unbelieveable run, but one thing is predictable: That dude freaks out when he’s insulted. It’s a damn shame that the Republican candidate has dragged this cycle down to such a point, but if it’s the ability to insult that determines our next President, I wish Hillary the tenacity to needle him with no let up.
The beauty is Hillary isn’t really insulting him. She’s simply throwing his own words back at him, and pointing out how his own self-stated positions make him unfit to be president. She gives him no room to maneuver; he’s too ignorant to take her on on the merits, and so all he can really do is insist he has “very strong and thick skin” (alas, not a joke).
Enjoy Today’s Episode of “Let Me Tell You How Strong and Thick My Skin Is”.
video at the link.
These attacks against Judge Curiel are an even more blatant example of overt anti-Mexican bigotry, and I think it’s possible that it may haunt Trump for the rest of the campaign. Every time Hillary or one of her surrogates talks about anything related to immigration or general criticism of Trump, they’ll bring up the fact that Trump doesn’t believe that Mexican Americans can serve as judges.
He apparently doesn’t believe that Muslim judgescan be impartial either. Yet somehow, NO MATTER what he says, there are no consequences. WTF!!!
There are always consequences in politics. Trump’s approval rating is toxic and he’d be unelectable if he wasn’t running against someone else who has richly earned a negative approval rating.
Interesting trend lines in the most recent reuters/Ipsos. Had been tied in their method 3 to 4 weeks ago, Clinton up since and widening to now Clinton +8 last reported.
For this house the trend is what is most important. They poll the same preselected large pool repetively. An internet based method may or may not be a valid reflection of the country but it is a valid look at trends within a group intended to be broadly reflective of the voting population.
January 20 at noon: “I, Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton …”
That would be your prediction too, if only you could steel yourself.
- And locks in any inaccuracies between the group polled and the voting population.
- When has an internet poll EVER been representative?
IIRC Google did alright in the past election and currently has a B grade on 538. Ipsos/Reuters that uses the Internet in recent polls has a score of A-. Of course we need more data to consider them to be as good as others, however today a live phone poll of registered voters from IDB shows Clinton up by 5 points, and it has to be noted that Ipsos also reported in May how close Trump got, but it looks like it was just a temporary bounce.
Of course as I just noted that Trump is releasing the hounds on the judge and the press and calling them the “racists” (according to an email leaked to Bloomberg), good luck in alienating the ones that fed your campaign Mr. Trump.
Ah, looked at the video first, the text does report that the leak is worse, as it points to a few close to the Trump campaign sharing their notes of the call to the media.
Worse in the sense that I can see now Trump becoming more paranoid and unhinged wondering who are the back stabbers.