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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnly One Thing Can Stop Donald Trump
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33984-focus-only-one-thing-can-stop-donald-trumpSo who can stop Trump? Not the fat-cat GOP donors whose doomed anti-Trump strategies keep being floated to the press. Not the earnest members of the reality-based community who diligently write articles explaining that, yes, Trumps latest proposal is unconstitutional, impossible to implement, racist, and a boost to the very ISIS ideologues Trump wants to destroy. Not the fact-checkers who show that almost every bit of evidence Trump cites, from nonexistent crowds of Muslims cheering 9/11 in New Jersey to junk polls of Muslim-American sentiment, is a lie. Trumps adherents are going to accept Trumps facts, just as they have accepted such facts from the other conservative leaders who have claimed Barack Obama was born in Africa and that climate change is a hoax.
No, the only people who can stop Trump are the obvious ones: those who actually vote or caucus in Republican primary states. Their verdict will be decisive, and come February we will start to hear from them directly in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina (where Trumps ban-Muslims oration played to a standing ovation last weekend). Its been a standard refrain of Establishment Republicans since the summer that Trumps toxic views dont represent their party and, indeed, if Republicans dont actually vote for Trump, hes done, and probably as an independent as well. But what if he does attract voters in numbers consistent with his polling? In less than two months from now, we are finally going to start getting a definitive answer to the question thats riveted us for months: Who are the Republicans?
pampango
(24,692 posts)If more decisively means more angrily, then Obama was doomed to failure. The GOP presidential field owns rage. Obama, as is his wont, was rational, not a dead or alive gunslinger like his predecessor, or an abject fearmonger like Trump."
Reacting with emotion and fear ("decisively" is not Obama's style, thank goodness. That type of reaction seems to be universal with the republican candidates.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)They ALL think that way. But, the GOP PTB know they can't ACTUALLY SAY it, like Trump does to win an election
CanonRay
(14,119 posts)the longer Trump is out there, the worse it is for the GOP; he is exposing to the world what the GOP have become. He is not an aberration, he IS the party, or at least a huge chunk of it. If he's there at the end as the GOP nominee, it will be at a minimum 60-40 win for Hillary or Bernie. Probably even worse. Unlike Germany, we don't have a parliamentary system, so no Chancellorship for Herr Trump. Plus, he'll bring a lot of the rest of the GOP creeps down with him.
Best case scenario, he runs as 3rd party and takes his neo-fascists with him, and the GOP still goes down in flames.
Don't get me wrong, I hate what he is saying, and he's going to cause a lot of trouble before he's done, but we can weather it, and perhaps become better for it as each of us examines our own souls. Maybe the sane Republicans will finally wake up.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)over the Apollonian super ego. Somewhere in heaven or among the Valkyries, Nietzsche is smiling.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)examine our own souls is being more optimistic than I can manage. (Put Eeyore gif here)