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Meldread

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10. I disagree. I want Donald Trump politically crippled, so he is unable to do anything.
Thu Jan 12, 2017, 04:03 AM
Jan 2017

The best outcome that we can hope for is that Donald Trump is completely politically crippled and becomes toxic for Republicans. However, they would be afraid to impeach him, and he would refuse to step down. At the same time, it becomes impossible for them to politically work with him. Trump may have some degree of scandal resistance, but the other Republicans do not. This was one of the weaknesses of Democrats during the campaign--they tried to paint Donald Trump as an anomaly. Instead, we should be trying to tie Trump around the neck of every Republican, and strangle them to death with their association with him.

Pence is more dangerous in the sense that he is likely to be much more successful in getting what he wants done through the Republican House and Senate. He is much more difficult to hate because he has that deceptive "aw-shucks" Mid-western false personality. This helps conceal his utter vile nature as a human being. Also, as a gay man, we would immediately become one of his first targets. Donald Trump is erratic and unpredictable, even for his allies and subserviates. This can work to our advantage. Mike Pence is the polar opposite.

The big fear dealing with Donald Trump isn't so much the domestic side of things, as he is likely to do a lot in self-sabotage, it's his foreign policy. ...and the fear that this crazy fucker might actually use nukes at some point. After all, according to him, why do we have them, if we can't use them?

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