11th August 2016, 5:09 AM
Everyone in the media is calling the past week or two "Trump's meltdown". What a weird way to frame it. Trump isn't doing anything now that he hasn't already been doing his ENTIRE campaign. He's been just as insane from the day he came down to earth on a golden escalator and said all (excuse me, most) Mexicans are rapists. Further, his base is defending every single thing he's said in the past few weeks just as much as they have every other thing he's said, and they mean it.
However, and this is important, Trump dropping his campaign would be terrible for the democrats. Hillary can beat Trump easily for the same reason literally any democratic candidate could beat Trump easily. Trump is Trump. Hillary may seem to have a new scandal every month, but Trump says something worse every single day, enough to make me forget about whatever Hillary did (I think she sent some e-mail to a Nigerian prince or something?). However, I'd be hard pressed to see anyone take an "anybody but Cruz" stance to the same degree. (I'm pretty sure since he came in second, he'd get the nomination, unless they had to do a second primary vote across the country, I'm not sure about their party rules.) Sure, Ted Cruz lacks that conscious he was telling republicans to vote with (psychopaths are aware of feelings like guilt at least, they just think of it as some "bad feeling" like pain or disgust), but he at least acts like a president, so mostly he'd just be killing his political opponents, not everyday citizens. Anyway, the democrats have to know they've basically been handed the presidency on a silver platter with Trump, so they better hope he doesn't manage to get himself arrested between now and the election.
However, and this is important, Trump dropping his campaign would be terrible for the democrats. Hillary can beat Trump easily for the same reason literally any democratic candidate could beat Trump easily. Trump is Trump. Hillary may seem to have a new scandal every month, but Trump says something worse every single day, enough to make me forget about whatever Hillary did (I think she sent some e-mail to a Nigerian prince or something?). However, I'd be hard pressed to see anyone take an "anybody but Cruz" stance to the same degree. (I'm pretty sure since he came in second, he'd get the nomination, unless they had to do a second primary vote across the country, I'm not sure about their party rules.) Sure, Ted Cruz lacks that conscious he was telling republicans to vote with (psychopaths are aware of feelings like guilt at least, they just think of it as some "bad feeling" like pain or disgust), but he at least acts like a president, so mostly he'd just be killing his political opponents, not everyday citizens. Anyway, the democrats have to know they've basically been handed the presidency on a silver platter with Trump, so they better hope he doesn't manage to get himself arrested between now and the election.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)