2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTime to Stop Blaming Trump
Ultimately, he is what he is. It's awful, but he is genuinely who he is.
Instead, it's time to focus on those people who enabled him and who ultimately support most of his views and policies: the Republican Party.
Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)JCMach1
(27,572 posts)Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)Or have people learned nothing after 2000 and 2004?
JCMach1
(27,572 posts)However, as the POTUS has done, it's time to connect the dots, tie the albatross... however you want to metaphor it.
Trump is the nasty, nasty symptom... not the disease. However, that still makes him an inflamed pustule...
renate
(13,776 posts)Besides, now that the election isn't even close any more, I'm not blaming him for anything--I'm thrilled that he is who he is. Given that people like him have apparently always existed in large numbers (I'd had no idea 40% of the US population were so awful), I'm very very grateful that he's such a terrible person and such a terrible candidate. Can you imagine if he'd been slick and glib and not so overtly rotten? If he'd held the same views but had managed to disguise himself as a viable candidate?
But you're right. It's not his fault that he attracts slavish devotion from racists and idiots. If they'd rejected him, he'd have gone away.
JCMach1
(27,572 posts)And yes, they were close to nominating him as well.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)don't think Trump's rigged election claim would seem even remotely logical if it weren't for the GOP's years-long efforts to disenfranchise voters of the Democratic persuasion. I don't think Trump's suggestion of building a wall would have resonated if it weren't for years of immigrant bashing, right wing militia groups patrolling the border, and an unfettered wave of propaganda and misinformation in the right wing media.
I won't stop blaming Trump, because his policies and beliefs need to be tied into the Republican party better. Right now the GOP are acting like Trump is an anomaly, and that may be true, be they created the conditions for this and that can't go unanswered.
I'll take the "Spread the Blame" approach.
JCMach1
(27,572 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)who are eagerly supporting him.
longship
(40,416 posts)(To Trump adherents, this is a metaphor.)
Philothea
(24 posts)but he is the product of these assholes after a feast of sun dried tomatoes... the bowel movement comes to the pulpit as the pretty face!