2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Donald Trump has 5 kids with 3 different wives? [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)know what he is and cooperated entirely in creating the Trump phenomenon. The wheel seems to be turning now, though, with the Republican convention, and it they'll be helping grind Trump up, while at the same time also promoting their horse race excitement based on false equivalency.
But don't forget, most conservatives do not like Trump. It's just that so far they dislike Democrats so much more that they've felt forced to support him. That's going to change for some of them. A young conservative answer when I asked if she'd watched the convention and Trump's speech, "If he's elected we're going to die." This was quite a change from before.
Btw, did you hear about today's unprecedented Washington Post condemnation of Trump? It includes a 5-minute video distillation of his 75-minute acceptance speech.
DONALD J. TRUMP, until now a Republican problem, this week became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament. He is mounting a campaign of snarl and sneer, not substance. To the extent he has views, they are wrong in their diagnosis of Americas problems and dangerous in their proposed solutions. Mr. Trumps politics of denigration and division could strain the bonds that have held a diverse nation together. His contempt for constitutional norms might reveal the nations two-century-old experiment in checks and balances to be more fragile than we knew.
Any one of these characteristics would be disqualifying; together, they make Mr. Trump a peril. We recognize that this is not the usual moment to make such a statement. In an ordinary election year, we would acknowledge the Republican nominee, move on to the Democratic convention and spend the following months, like other voters, evaluating the candidates performance in debates, on the stump and in position papers. This year we will follow the campaign as always, offering honest views on all the candidates. But we cannot salute the Republican nominee or pretend that we might endorse him this fall. A Trump presidency would be dangerous for the nation and the world. ...
The partys failure of judgment leaves the nations future where it belongs, in the hands of voters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-a-unique-threat-to-american-democracy/2016/07/22/a6d823cc-4f4f-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html