Trump is An Opportunistic Infection
The idea that having Trump one step away from being president is very scary but at the same time, I believe that the people warning us not to underestimate him have it completely backward. I say, for your own sanity over the next few months, try not to overestimate him.
In medicine, when someone is very sick, such as late stage cancer patients, AIDS, or severe cardiovascular damage, often those individuals don't succumb to the major illness but instead to an opportunistic infection. These are diseases that a healthy person can ward off with little trouble, like the flu or a sinus infection. But those that are so ravaged by disease that their body is on its last legs, the minor things are what take over and ultimately prove fatal.
I think this is where we are with Trump and the Republican Party. Trump is not like some big bad superbug that can wipe out even the strongest among us but is instead is a low level, punk ass disease that is festering in a party that is too sick to survive. The republicans have been on their last legs for a long time. Shifting demographics, a lack of ideas, rich people convening the voters and the party to go against their best interests, all of this has taken it toll on the GOP. The various factions have ravaged the party with infighting. A healthy party would have never had 19 candidates running at once and a healthy party could have easily pushed a candidate like Trump so far to the margins that few people would have ever remembered that he was even in the race. A major factor in a successful political party is uniting disparate elements to find the most electable person. Its about comprising a bit to win. But compromise is a four letter word in the modern republican party and each faction feels that it and only it should be running the entire country, other viewpoints be damned.
So what do we end up with? 19 candidates running in 19 different factions, with a front runner that couldn't muster more than about 1/3 of the vote until everyone else gave up. People look a Trump as some unstoppable juggernaut. He is an outsider that took down a major party's establishment to win against all odds.....except that isn't what happened. The establishment has been decimated by purges in recent years and is mostly full of novices and demagogues. And Trump's 18 competitors were largely long failed and forgotten politicians, like Huckabee, Santorum, Bush and Gilmore, and fringe extremists like Cruz and Paul. These are signs of a deathly ill GOP and Trumps 1/3 of the vote was pathetic. Despite an estimated $2 billion in free press and months as the front runner, Trump barely won.
Trump is a not a strong, brilliant candidate. He is an opportunist that preys on the weak and feeble. His racism and sexism, in an increasingly tolerant and liberal country, combined with his lack of experience and planning will prove to be his undoing with the general population. Yes, fight like hell, like we always doing in these elections and sure, nothing is guaranteed in this world, but if i was a betting man, I would say Trump and his fascist red hats will soon face a brutal a brutal reality that American is not sick and weak like their pathetic party.
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