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eridani

(51,907 posts) Sat Dec 12, 2015, 05:59 AM Dec 2015

Only One Thing Can Stop Donald Trump

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33984-focus-only-one-thing-can-stop-donald-trump

So who can stop Trump? Not the fat-cat GOP donors whose doomed anti-Trump strategies keep being floated to the press. Not the earnest members of the reality-based community who diligently write articles explaining that, yes, Trump’s latest proposal is unconstitutional, impossible to implement, racist, and a boost to the very ISIS ideologues Trump wants to destroy. Not the fact-checkers who show that almost every bit of evidence Trump cites, from nonexistent crowds of Muslims cheering 9/11 in New Jersey to junk polls of Muslim-American sentiment, is a lie. Trump’s adherents are going to accept Trump’s facts, just as they have accepted such “facts” from the other conservative leaders who have claimed Barack Obama was born in Africa and that climate change is a hoax.

No, the only people who can stop Trump are the obvious ones: those who actually vote or caucus in Republican primary states. Their verdict will be decisive, and come February we will start to hear from them directly in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina (where Trump’s ban-Muslims oration played to a standing ovation last weekend). It’s been a standard refrain of Establishment Republicans since the summer that Trump’s toxic views don’t represent their party — and, indeed, if Republicans don’t actually vote for Trump, he’s done, and probably as an independent as well. But what if he does attract voters in numbers consistent with his polling? In less than two months from now, we are finally going to start getting a definitive answer to the question that’s riveted us for months: Who are the Republicans?

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Only One Thing Can Stop Donald Trump (Original Post) eridani Dec 2015 OP

"Was Obama right to take the higher ground, or should he have spoken more decisively? pampango Dec 2015 #1

The only thing that can defeat Trump is a bigger Trump. randome Dec 2015 #2

The biggest bull%hit line... Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2015 #3

As I've been saying since the beginning of the campaign CanonRay Dec 2015 #4

Trump represents the triumph of the Dionysian id KingCharlemagne Dec 2015 #5

Assuming that each of us will LiberalElite Dec 2015 #6

You caught me in a unusual hopeful moment. CanonRay Dec 2015 #7

pampango

(24,692 posts)

1. "Was Obama right to take the higher ground, or should he have spoken more decisively?

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 08:08 AM

Dec 2015

If “more decisively” means “more angrily,” then Obama was doomed to failure. The GOP presidential field owns rage. Obama, as is his wont, was rational, not a “dead or alive” gunslinger like his predecessor, or an abject fearmonger like Trump."

Reacting with emotion and fear ("decisively&quot is not Obama's style, thank goodness. That type of reaction seems to be universal with the republican candidates.

randome

(34,845 posts)

2. The only thing that can defeat Trump is a bigger Trump.

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 08:21 AM

Dec 2015

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

3. The biggest bull%hit line...

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 08:44 AM

Dec 2015

It’s been a standard refrain of Establishment Republicans since the summer that Trump’s toxic views don’t represent their party

They ALL think that way. But, the GOP PTB know they can't ACTUALLY SAY it, like Trump does to win an election

CanonRay

(14,119 posts)

4. As I've been saying since the beginning of the campaign

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Sat Dec 12, 2015, 09:43 AM

Dec 2015

the longer Trump is out there, the worse it is for the GOP; he is exposing to the world what the GOP have become. He is not an aberration, he IS the party, or at least a huge chunk of it. If he's there at the end as the GOP nominee, it will be at a minimum 60-40 win for Hillary or Bernie. Probably even worse. Unlike Germany, we don't have a parliamentary system, so no Chancellorship for Herr Trump. Plus, he'll bring a lot of the rest of the GOP creeps down with him.

Best case scenario, he runs as 3rd party and takes his neo-fascists with him, and the GOP still goes down in flames.

Don't get me wrong, I hate what he is saying, and he's going to cause a lot of trouble before he's done, but we can weather it, and perhaps become better for it as each of us examines our own souls. Maybe the sane Republicans will finally wake up.