# Trump's Republican primary campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 3, 2015, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828 "2015-09-03T18:00:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 143
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2845 "2016-03-23T14:41:55Z")
Trump’s / Arpaio’s idea of police freedom to arrest, detain, and torture at will is lots more than just a bad idea. Coupled with the end of press freedom it is nothing less than the end of our way of life. Funny that the folks agitating for this are the ones who are usually loudest about personal freedom & flag waving. It is ever thus on the path to totalitarianism. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2846 "2016-03-23T15:13:04Z")
[Nice article on 538 about why Donald Trump.](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-donald-trump/) > [@](#): > > Along with the fighting, though, something inspirational seems to be happening among the assembled — a sense of collective identity being discovered. In this millionaire cosmopolitan who has married two immigrants, the threatened silent American majority has found its champion. > [@](#): > > This is in no small part because of Trump’s virtuoso dog-whistling — it’s a thing to behold, almost as if he’d grabbed the slender wrists of the crowd with those big hands of his, felt for the pulse of their darkest hearts and then whispered the words they so long to hear. While containing no overt racial slurs, Trump’s stump speech is cleverly coded. > > Trump has offered people something more potent than party allegiance: empowerment. > > “Do we love our police?” Trump asked in Columbus to big cheers. The line is simple but cuts to something much deeper: Republicans, the majority of whom are white, have consistently reacted quite differently from Democrats to the recent spate of racially charged police killings. He may have a ceiling that is too low to win the general election, but to the misinformed, he is the savior for which they have yearned. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2847 "2016-03-23T15:15:24Z")
“… this millionaire cosmopolitan who has married two immigrants …” In case you haven’t seen it before, that proves there are some jobs that Americans just won’t do. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2848 "2016-03-23T15:27:48Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > But I am intrigued by this concept of unlimited blowjobs. Upside: unlimited blowjobs. Downside: Thursday is your day in the barrel. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Trump’s / Arpaio’s idea of police freedom to arrest, detain, and torture at will is lots more than just a bad idea. > > Coupled with the end of press freedom it is nothing less than the end of our way of life. > > Funny that the folks agitating for this are the ones who are usually loudest about personal freedom & flag waving. > > It is ever thus on the path to totalitarianism. Clearly you didn’t get the memo - it’s **liberals** who are the real fascists, in the same way the Jews of Cable Street were the real fascists for suppressing the free speech of that nice Mr Mosley and his followers. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2849 "2016-03-23T16:03:23Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Clearly you didn’t get the memo - it’s **liberals** who are the real fascists . . . [If only you were just making that up.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism) (Jonah Goldberg **was** just making it up, but the point is that this already is a hoary meme in RW circles.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2850 "2016-03-23T16:11:02Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [If only you were just making that up.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism) (Jonah Goldberg **was** just making it up, but the point is that this already is a hoary meme in RW circles.) I didn’t think I was making it up; I mentioned it in reaction to previous comments in this very thread. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2851 "2016-03-23T16:38:07Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Upside: unlimited blowjobs. > > Downside: Thursday is your day in the barrel. Well done! ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2852 "2016-03-23T20:15:23Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > “… this millionaire cosmopolitan who has married two immigrants …” > > In case you haven’t seen it before, that proves there are some jobs that Americans just won’t do. Mitt Romney actually mentioned that today. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2853 "2016-03-23T23:55:53Z")
[Apparently Donald Trump doesn’t know that his foreign policy advisor is a former Palestinian Christian militia leader, and is not a Muslim at all.](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/donald-trump-walid-phares-fox-news) ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2854 "2016-03-24T04:55:28Z")
While I don’t dislike him, Trump’s foreign policy proposals like eliminating NATO are dangerous and ignorant. Still prefer him to Ted Cruz, who is a lunatic. I like Trump’s neutrality on Israel and Palestine, but overall in foreign policy he is an idiot. Hillary would murder him in the debates when it comes to foreign policy. In terms of the primaries I hope he wins all the upcoming states and gets more than 1000 delegates. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2855 "2016-03-24T14:27:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Apparently Donald Trump doesn’t know that his foreign policy advisor is a former Palestinian Christian militia leader, and is not a Muslim at all.](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/03/donald-trump-walid-phares-fox-news) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walid_Phares) describes Phares as “a prominent adherent and promoter of the Sharia Law Conspiracy Theory, in which he believes Muslim Americans seek to subvert and overthrow the U.S. Government and Constitution with Islamic law.” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2856 "2016-03-24T14:36:43Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walid_Phares) describes Phares as “a prominent adherent and promoter of the Sharia Law Conspiracy Theory, in which he believes Muslim Americans seek to subvert and overthrow the U.S. Government and Constitution with Islamic law.” I heard him on npr yesterday. He sounds like a delusional fool. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2857 "2016-03-24T15:58:20Z")
He should fit right in at the Trump White House, then. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2858 "2016-03-24T18:40:22Z")
Trump releases a new campaign commercial; no, wait, it an [ISIS recruiting video](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/isis-release-brussels-attack-video-7622442). ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2859 "2016-03-24T23:06:29Z")
Trump has, in fact, released a list of five foreign-policy advisors (other than his own brain, and including Phares), and . . . [oh dear. Oh my. Oh shit.](http://www.salon.com/2016/03/23/donald_trumps_fanatical_braintrust_why_his_foreign_policy_advisors_are_even_worse_than_you_think/) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2860 "2016-03-25T15:39:31Z")
Yeah, that’s pretty dire. Aren’t there any elderly ex-Nazis he can name as prospective Cabinet secretaries? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2861 "2016-03-25T16:28:00Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I heard him on npr yesterday. He sounds like a delusional fool. I heard the same bit. It was impressively pathetic. You can listen to it [here](http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=471543396&m=471543397). The sales pitch is that Trump is saying things that he does not believe now and in the office will defer to experts. So don’t worry about what he says. And then lies and says that Trump does not actually say we should torture. And just plain does not answer several questions asked. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2862 "2016-03-25T16:34:22Z")
Remember being told in 2000 how it didn’t matter that Dubya was ignorant and lazy, because he’d have a bunch of great people around to tell him what to do? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2863 "2016-03-25T16:35:13Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > I heard the same bit. It was impressively pathetic. You can listen to it [here](http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=471543396&m=471543397). > > The sales pitch is that Trump is saying things that he does not believe now and in the office will defer to experts. So don’t worry about what he says. And then lies and says that Trump does not actually say we should torture. And just plain does not answer several questions asked. My paraphrase: Trump: We’ll totally torture, but just some. Inskeep: So he wants to torture. Phared: He didn’t say anything about torture. Oh, and we’ll get the Arabs to fight in Syria. Inskeep: How? Phared: And they’ll be awesome and we won’t have to send soldiers. Inskeep: Why would they do this? Phared: And then we’ll win. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828/2864 "2016-03-25T16:42:46Z")
[Neo-Nazi Trump supporter calls for execution of Ted Cruz’s ‘sl\*t wife’ over links to ‘Jew banksters’](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/neo-nazi-trump-supporter-calls-for-execution-of-ted-cruzs-slt-wife-over-links-to-jew-banksters/) It’s barely even started, friends. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828.md?page=142) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-republican-primary-campaign/729828.md?page=144)