2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"They chose not to."
One thing about Hillary's speech on Trump's racism is that any of
Trump's 16 primary opponents could have done it.
"They chose not to."
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/768941927467286531
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_candidates,_2016
http://time.com/4466706/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-radical-fringe-hate-transcript/
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)I'm not defending them,I'm just noting that they've been very,very quiet lately. I think they would rather write off this presidency that let Trump win in their name.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...once she's in the White House. Endless BS "investigations", an impeachment...doesn't matter if it succeeds, as long as they can destroy her adminintration in the cradle. These fuckers don't have a patriotic bone in their bodies...
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I think that would be a hard question to answer in retrospect and going forward too....
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)not being sniveling cowards. That may have worked.
PatSeg
(46,791 posts)pissing off the base. They created this situation by catering to extremists for too long and now they are stuck with them. What goes around, comes around.
Don't you love when you live long enough to see karma in action?
I guess that is a positive aspect to all this insanity. For a while I thought we might just have to wait until they all died off and I didn't know if I could live THAT long!
Gothmog
(143,999 posts)liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)Remember when Ted The Zodiac Killer cruz tried to one up him with his community policing idea?
sofa king
(10,857 posts)McCain spoke out against Trump and now he's fighting for his Senate seat. Republican voters are now too dumb to hide behind the veil of propriety. Trump recognized it, encouraged them to drop the charade by dropping it himself, and now everyone else is going to pay for it.