So Trump was trolling us all along.

[cilla4progress]

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Given disclosures of his former campaign chair. It was all just a notch in his belt, not a serious endeavor. How sad and disappointing for our democracy.

http://www.theweek.com/speedreads/615397/former-trump-pac-strategist-donald-never-wanted-president

[corkhead]

1. yeah, but with the consolation prize of destroying the Republicon party

[jaysunb]

2. +1

Go Trump Go !!

[cilla4progress]

3. Oh

YEAHHHHHH!.

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[gsb54]

4. He has caused great damage!

In my state we have had many new incidents of violent racial acts. Fires, vandalism, assaults... all in the name of hate.

People with racism tendencies have been given permission of a sort, to act, and have do so because of trump. We have healing to do. We have had state leaders in the media calling for compassion and NO place for racism. Groups have been meeting for strategy to counter the damage he is doing.

I don't find it funny at all what Trump has done.

Please, share what disclosures you are referring to. I have not heard.

[pampango]

13. Well said. The damage you described is a huuuuge downside to his campaign even if

it results in the fracturing of the republican party and a Democratic landslide in November.

People with racism tendencies have been given permission of a sort, to act, and have do so because of trump.

... we have had many new incidents of violent racial acts. Fires, vandalism, assaults... all in the name of hate.

We can all hope that bringing the haters and racists out from the dark corners in which they lurked in the past and seeing them repudiated in an electoral a--kicking will teach them and society in general a lesson about what is moral and acceptable in the modern world. We can all hope that but expecting it to happen is unrealistic. RW populists like Trump who spread hatred and racism have risen in many European and won very few national elections but they, and the hatred and racism they spread, have not gone away.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Link

[Stallion]

6. Most Popular Clown in the Car

if any of these guys were attractive candidates they would have jumped already-but #NobodyLikesTedCruz

[L. Coyote]

9. Most popular klansman at every rally!

I wish they were clowns!

[BlueSpot]

7. Wait, what?

Super busy day today. I didn't even hear about the shooting at the capitol until I was coming home from work. I didn't hear about this at all.

[valerief]

8. Que?

[cui bono]

10. A little info please?

[Wednesdays]

11. Links?

Some evidence would be helpful.

[sofa king]

15. Here are some.

A former staffer for Trump claims that his run started as a vanity project and he was supposed to be a protest candidate with "success" defined as 12% of the Republican vote behind a nominee polling at 50%.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027722224

http://www.dailycaviar.com/an-open-letter-to-trump-voters-from-his-top-strategist-turned-defector-i-respect-trumps-fans-thats-why-i-can-no-longer-support-the-man-himself/

I think the disclosure is interesting because twelve percent and second place is just where a spoiler third-party candidate wants to be in 21st Century American politics. Twelve percent is more than enough to take the Presidency away from a candidate, particularly a Republican candidate because the GOP now relies upon vote theft and less than one-quarter of all Americans to carry them. It's easy to shave them to the skin.

If Donald Trump is considerably smarter and more concerned for the United States than I have ever credited him, his candidacy may have been built around the idea of preventing another Bush presidency. As a businessman he's got to be aware of the two recessions and decade-long stasis of the stock and real estate markets that resulted from Shrub.

But now Trump's success has turned the GOP on its head and he's in danger of winning the nomination he may never have wanted in the first place. He may be self-aware enough to know how disastrous his own Presidency would be. I wonder if he will privately back a third party candidate to run against his own self.

[footinmouth]

12. I have a link

A friend sent me this link a few hours ago, long but a very good read

http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/03/28/trumps-top-strategist-just-quit-wrote-brutal-open-letter-trump-voters/

[Egnever]

14. Was there ever any doubt?