Do Trumpists Get That Donald Trump Has NO Mandate?

[rsacamano]

[gordianot]

1. The answer is "No" M$M also does not get Trumps lack of mandate with people, however......

Where it does count in Government Trump has an overwhelming mandate and people are screwed whether they know it or not.

[Truth321]

2. Elections have consequences

Unfortunately winning the election did result in a mandate. We need to get out heads out of the sand, move on, and get back to WINNING elections

[pnwmom]

9. Not by any definition of a mandate we've ever used before.

Most Presidents in the past with his kind of win would have made an effort to be conciliatory. He has done anything but.

[Lil Missy]

3. They. Don't. Care.

[doc03]

4. He is a leader when he tells someone to do something

they do it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. His party has the White House, the Senate, the House, and soon, the Supreme Court

If he wants to say "mandate", who are we to argue?

He can run the table on bad laws.

[Ohioblue22]

6. Yes he does and he got it just by Winning unless

man·date
ˈmanˌdāt/Submit
noun
1.
an official order or commission to do something.
"a mandate to seek the release of political prisoners"
synonyms: instruction, directive, decree, command, order, injunction, edict, charge, commission, bidding, ruling, fiat; formalordinance
"a mandate from the UN"
2.
the authority to carry out a policy or course of action, regarded as given by the electorate to a candidate or party that is victorious in an election.
"a sick leader living beyond his mandate"
synonyms: authority, approval, acceptance, ratification, endorsement, sanction, authorization
"they won a mandate to form the government.

However:
The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the ** fair ** winning of a democratic election is a central idea of representative democracy.

I don't think he won it fairly

[Thor_MN]

8. The problem is that some people think that mandate has a connotation of overwhelming.

Trump's win could be the weakest ever if the overwhelming loss in the popular vote is considered.

In no way does he have a claim to anything other than squeaking in, more people voted against him than for him.

He does have a mandate, but as you point out, that only means he won, nothing more.

[mdbl]

7. I think has has a mandate with Putin scheduled

Don't know where they plan on spending the evening though.

[pnwmom]

10. WE ARE IDIOTS

if we accept the GOP claim that he has a mandate.

He is President-elect because of a rigged system, a system set-up to give more power to white voters in rural states, in order to support the system of slavery.

Hillary got almost 3 million more voters, and 3rd party got another 7+ million. That's 76 million voters who OPPOSED him.

When Democratic Presidents in the past have won only a plurality of the vote (not a majority) because of 3rd parties, the Rethugs have insisted that we could not claim a mandate. Well they damn well can't claim one now.