Trump: How Did We Get Here? (I’ll Tell You.)

[robertpaulsen]

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Trump: How Did We Get Here? (I’ll Tell You.)

July 19, 2016

This week, Republican delegates are poised to set a whole new standard for their bearer by nominating sentient E. Coli Donald Trump to be their man in the White House. Many within the less-Grand-by-the-second Old Party (and many more without it) have been scratching their heads harder than pre-school kids with a lice infestation trying to understand how we got here.

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Political mathletes have flooded the non-stop-talking channels to explain the delegate distribution of our nominating process, causing even people who have been voting for decades to realize that we don’t actually understand how this country elects a president, (and that we have some straight up legit concerns about the potential skullduggery of the process.)

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And the numbers nerds have a point. Trump made it halfway through April collecting delegates without ever winning more than 50% of the vote in a primary. If Republicans had just practiced a little self-selection at the start of this fiasco, they wouldn’t have kept splitting the vote, and a “more traditional” candidate probably would have gotten the nomination. That’s what they get for not believing in evolution. Then again, if their clown car candidates were too proud and stubborn to do basic arithmetic, would any of them really have been a better choice?

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Others have posited that after decades of Fox “News” and Rush Limbaugh indoctrinating their base with racist, classist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, anti-intellectual bulls**t, it should come as no surprise that their base has nominated a racist, classist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, intellectually deficient bully. It’s a fair (and balanced) point.

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[robertpaulsen]

2. Just corrected it.

I appreciate your helpfulness! Thanks!

[King_Klonopin]

3. Yup -- comes down to one word: PLURALITY.

It is how LePage got to be Governor of Maine.

If the Republican primary hadn't been so diluted with scum, Trump
would have lost because he was only capable of winning about
25-30% of the vote, which means 70-75% of the voters in the GOP
primary did not vote for him.

He won becuase he was able to get the biggest slice in a 14-piece pie.
Now they and we are all stuck with the mess. A run-off vote may have
reversed this ?

[robertpaulsen]

4. A run-off might have reversed the results.

Then it would probably be some other a-hole like Cruz or Rubio.