Who here from day one never thought trump would last a month?

[Logical]

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	I thought Trump was a joke and would immediately drop out
	6 (60%)
	I thought Trump was a serious candidate who might get the nomination
	4 (40%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[La Lioness Priyanka]

1. rachel maddow knew that this was not a joke. nt

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i thought trump was an asshole the republicans would take seriously

not that he is a serious candidate

[northernsouthern]

3. I was amazed how much crap they gave him.

Like Reagan he was a star. He had cross-over appeal at times depending if it was pre-mexican comments. I figured it would be him, I also figured both parties would fracture...sadly it is looking more like only ours will break apart.

[mnhtnbb]

4. I thought he was a joke but expected him to drop out by January.

The election shaping up between Trump and Hillary scares me.

Too many states have been messing with voter registrations, polling places, and requiring voter
id. We could be shaping up for a repeat of Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 across a LOT of states.

[Logical]

13. Same here, boy I was wrong. Nt

[NuclearDem]

5. I didn't think Trump had a chance.

But that was largely due to my faith in humanity.

[bigwillq]

6. Somewhere between joke and serious

Thought he was a joke when he first entered, but then he got people to believe what he was saying. And they voted. And then there was no choice but to take him seriously.

Didn't think that would happen. Thought he would be a fad.

[Glorfindel]

7. Sadly, one should never underestimate the stupidity of the American electorate

Trump is no more ridiculous than R. Reagan or G.W. Bush, just more flamboyant.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. I knew right from the jump that the dumb ass racist redneck element would be all over tRump...

He's the sort only they can understand and appreciate and they have done so in spades, just as I was afraid they would.

[eissa]

9. I predicted he'd be out by SC

My faith in the American public was clearly off.

[Doctor Jack]

10. I thought the RNC would push him to the margins early on

But apparently they were content with sticking their thumbs up their butts and hoping that Trump would....fall off his penthouse balcony?

[montana_hazeleyes]

11. I remember telling my husband several months ago,

don't be surprised to see a trump presidency. He just kinda laughed a little and said no way.

But I felt he would bluster what the racist, selfish, mean spirited people were bursting at the seams to support.

That he would empower them and they would in turn feed the monster and his ego and it would get bigger and bigger and out of control. I know that's easy to say now, but I felt it was coming early on.

[BlindTiresias]

12. I knew he was going to win.

It helps being pessimistic about things, you usually end up being right.

[Egnever]

14. Not enough options

Never took him seriously but was not surprised a good portion of the republican base would.

King of the clowns...What an achievement!

[doc03]

15. OK people thought he was a joke, do you still think he is a joke? Of all the Republicans

that ran the experts on TV thought the same. It looks like people are going to keep underestimating him and we may see a president Trump.

[hay rick]

16. Maybe I should have known better.

I thought the lead lemming went over the cliff in 2000 when Bush was NOMINATED- never mind everything that happened in the next 8 years. Still, compared to Trump, Bush looks like a statesman. I have personally experienced only one other situation that seems comparable to the moral and intellectual decline of the Republican Party "base." My wife and I became caregivers for her uncle, who had dementia. When I met Uncle John he still played duplicate bridge and was close to becoming a life master. Ten years later he didn't know my name.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

17. I think Trump is a serious "fuck shit up" candidate

I think some sort of slight occurred that so offended Trump that he decided he was going prove to those that offended him that he could burn the political and economic elite of this country to the ground just because it amuses him.