Trump's Sanity (or lack of it) is resonating

[louis c]

I've been watching the Sunday morning shows, and it appears that is it getting more and more acceptable to question Trump's sanity. Mike Bloomberg, Mark Cuban, guests on shows. It's common and it's resonating.

Many in my circle of white working class voters over 50 are starting to respond to that line of argument, especially women. They are actually convincing their husbands, in my circle, mind you, that it is not OK to vote for Trump, or at least not acceptable to tell others you are.

The persuadable respond to this insanity line, and, even it they don't like or trust Hillary, they are moving to the conclusion that Trump is far too dangerous to run this country.

My discussions revolve, primarily, around the Trump demographic white males over 55 years old without a college education. Recent polls have given Trump a 39% lead (63% to 24%) in this group. It's one of the only demographic groups he leads in. So, of course, with my luck, it's my group. As a result, I argue politics all day long. I change a few minds and soften the support among some others. Still others will admit that they are bigots, and that nothing will change their mind on supporting Trump. That ends the conversation, because I can't change their mind. As it turns out, in a strange twist of an old euphemism, "Some of my best friends are bigots". They finally admit it, say that Trump speaks to them and that's it. While we're on that subject, the admission goes something like this "You must like Trump because he's a bigot. You know that the text book definition of bigotry is that you condemn a whole group of people based on the actions of a few." Their response, "if that's the definition, I guess I'm a bigot." Discussion over. You deserve Trump. So, bigotry doesn't influence them, politically. Sanity does. If someone votes out of fear, we can make them more afraid of a Trump Presidency than they are of any ethnic group.

That's been my new line of attack.

[mercuryblues]

1. I was talking

to my devoutly republican brother during the primaries. He asked me what I thought about the GOP primary. I gave him my famous "are you kidding me" look and he laughed. I know, they are all crazy except Kasich. I told him yup and Kasich's only qualification is "vote for me, I'm not crazy." He put his head down and said, I know.

I believe he is skipping the entire election this year.

[dem in texas]

2. I wondered if he was "medicated"

When he would start on one of his rants, I'd wonder if he'd taken some type of medication. It never crossed my mind that he is nutty as a fruitcake.

[treestar]

3. Those word salads are starting to make him sound

downright incompetent. We've got that, too. It should hurt them the way Palin did. He's even more hostile than she was.