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(21,506 posts)or even the republican field for the last several elections. In the past three elections the republican offerings have almost exclusively been as bad as trump or worse.
This is much more the result of a party that has destroyed itself by catering to their constituents worst instincts for years in order to try to retain power.
And lastly Trump does not now nor has he ever had a shot at winning the general despite all the hair on fire nonsense. He barely won the republican nod and if not for a split field of so many candidates he likely would not have carried the nomination. More people voted for someone else in the Republican primary than voted for trump.
His strength in the election has been vastly overrated from the beginning by a media that gets paid by presenting Shocking stories as if they are reality.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-national-polls-show-the-race-tightening-but-state-polls-dont/
15% chance of winning the election....
When taken in the context of reality Trump is being rejected more soundly than any Republican candidate in decades.