10th May 2016, 10:17 AM
A Black Falcon Wrote:From the days when Donald Trump was just an obnoxious real-estate owner and reality TV star, not a neofascist xenophobe playing up race hatred to win nomination...
You don't just flip a switch and just suddenly turn into Benito Doucholini one day. Trust me.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not all that sure he means half of what he says or that he intends to do anything along the lines of building a giant wall. Maybe it's because I don't want to take him seriously, but he doesn't make it easy. He scares me a lot less than Ted Cruz, who is a theocrat and an ideologue and the Zodiac Killer.
Quote:But also, but voting for who you think can win IS valid, because if you get an unelectable person as your nominee, it makes it much more likely that the worst result will happen, the other party winning. Think of Republican Tea Party senate nominees in the last couple of cycles who said really dumb things and lost in the general, after getting nominated because of their super-far-right stances -- Republican primary voters voting for purity helped Democrats win later. And that's good for us, but it does show who electability matters.
I just don't get the assertion that Clinton is electable; it's a common meme but the evidence does not support it. She's never won a contested election in her life, and just about every general election poll has her performing significantly worse against Trump than Sanders. The fact that an unknown Senator from Vermont is taking her to the wire, with her universal name recognition and dozens of DNC fingers on the scale, sounds to me like a terrible omen going up against someone who's really going to tear into her soft underbelly.
I think it remains to be seen if the Republican Party ends up fracturing as a result of Trumpmania. If so, I think progressives need to follow suit and break away from the Democratic Party.
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