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bulloney

(4,113 posts)
Sat May 21, 2016, 05:05 PM May 2016

Hey you Republican lemmings! Donald Trump is not a protest vote!

I can't begin to count the number of conversations I've had with friends and relatives who have expressed disgust over the apparent upcoming Presidential election between Trump and Clinton. Most of these discussions have been with Republicans. And they all go something like this: "I don't care for Trump, but he speaks his mind against the current establishment and I'm voting for him as a protest vote."

Newsflash! Trump is not a "protest" vote. He's the nominee of one of the two major parties. A protest vote would be for a third party or write-in candidate. All these people are doing is rationalizing some excuse to vote Republican again.

I've said for years that the Repubs I know would vote for a Hitler/Stalin presidential ticket if they ran as Republicans. And they would rationalize that Hitler/Stalin support the sanctity of life and believe in all of the things that Republicans claim they stand for (but rarely support candidates who carry out those beliefs).

Unless something radical comes out of nowhere and it does not become a Trump-Clinton race, I can't see how Trump doesn't get elected. This country is dumb enough to do this.

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Person 2713

(3,263 posts)
1. Dumb and/or full of suspicion and/or hate .the OP link below shows 45-50% whites support trump
Sat May 21, 2016, 05:24 PM
May 2016
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2023838
It's a CBS NY Times poll
Depending on his VP pick he could surge much higher

spin

(17,493 posts)
2. The Republicans I know are pissed at their party. ...
Sat May 21, 2016, 05:25 PM
May 2016

Just as many Democrats are pissed at their party.

Many people of both parties in our nation feel that the people they elect to represent them go to DC where they work for the big donors, the lobbyists, Wall Street, the pharmaceutical industry and the military industrial complex.

Both Bernie and Trump are in my opinion protest candidates. Hillary is the establishment and it's a bad year to be viewed as a representative of the establishment.

We may be witnessing the beginnings of a "throw all the bums out" movement. People want to see some real change for a change.

I'm not saying that the anger in our nation will work out well but merely that it exists and is gathering momentum. To a large number of people Trump and Bernie are the outsiders and they are willing to accept the fact that neither is perfect. Angry people are not always rational.

uppityperson

(115,674 posts)
3. I agree until your last paragraph. That's what I thought about shrub also.
Sat May 21, 2016, 05:38 PM
May 2016

This country is dumb enough to elect trump.

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
4. trump was a protest vote in the republican primaries.
Sat May 21, 2016, 05:41 PM
May 2016

The republican establishment did everything they could to stop him. People knew this and only that added to his success.

Like followers of a certain Third Way candidate, his followers simply ignore all criticism of him as being invalid. To them, for the former, it's all right wing propaganda, for trump it's the "liberal" media or the republican establishment.

trump very well could be elected, of that I've no doubt.

UnFettered

(79 posts)
5. The majority of republicans I know only...
Sat May 21, 2016, 05:46 PM
May 2016

Voted for Trump to watch the Republican Party burn. A very good majority of those that did vote for him in the primary. Said they are voting third party or not at all.

Honestly I live in a red state and most people I know are republicans. I would say very very few people I talk to own up supporting trump. The majority of people I talk with are angry at the state of the Republican Party and politics in general. A lot of poeople have been voicing the need for more than two major parties.

I can agree with that also.

niyad

(112,434 posts)
6. so, der drumpenfuhrer speaks his racist, misoogynistic, myopic, ignorant, bullying mind, and people
Sat May 21, 2016, 05:57 PM
May 2016

find that a reason to vote for him? they approve of the hate and ignorance spewing from his mouth? wow, says a lot about them, does it not?

bulloney

(4,113 posts)
8. I know a female business owner who supports Trump, if you can believe it!
Sat May 21, 2016, 06:04 PM
May 2016

I don't understand the support for Trump from anyone, let alone a woman, given his track record with women.

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