# What the hell is Trump?

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**Created:** [July 30, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-trump/726581 "2015-07-30T15:21:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-is-trump/726581/311 "2015-08-28T04:17:48Z")

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> [@DinoR](#):
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> Think again.
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> I, and a number of the Republicans I know, are horrified of the concept of a Trump Presidency. The idea of that dishonorable, loud mouthed, braggart representing us to the world… _Shudder_. It only takes a small move of normal Republican voters to turn an uphill electoral college map into a crushing Democratic victory. Trump can probably only dream of getting even the 27% of Hispanic voters Romney got. Start throwing in even small swings in non-Hispanic demographics, like me, and he’s going to get curb stomped.

Careful there, people like SA does not think that Republicans like you exist. 🙂

As for what Trump is, I see him as the candidate with the richest target environment, as in having lots of very dumb ideas and controversies that will come up in the general election (but I would like to see that). One gets the impression that the media is really letting a lot of those targets alone until the presidential race starts.

One big target that even the media had put their feet over the coals recently were the anti-vaxxers; I do not know about his politics, but one should read what **Mr. Miskatonic** had to say today in a different thread about people that still insist that vaccines are evil:

> [@Vaccines, autism and big pharma](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vaccines-autism-and-big-pharma/727046/113):
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> We tried being nice. The antivaxxers called us shills
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> We tried giving the facts, plainly and calmly. The anitvaxxers accused us of crippling their children.
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> We tried using statistics and data. The antivaxxers photshopped images of prominent pro-vaccines people eating babies
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> We started giving examples of children injured or lost due to antivaccine fears. The antivaxxers accused us of using emotional appeals as they bemoaned and wailed about the odd fates of their children they ‘knew’ were damaged by vaccines
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> Then we started seeing outbreaks, and we were done doing this the polite way.

**We do have to be very unpolite to Trump indeed**.

Because Trump is an anti-vaxxer. And Republicans who look at reason (and Independents and Democrats too) are indeed not going to support a guy that can order the Centers of Disease Control or other offices around regarding vaccines, nor to risk giving Trump the most powerful bully pulpit to disparage one of the biggest health triumphs in history.

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