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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis is Donald Trump’s worst nightmare
At long last, Donald Trump has been un-normalized.Updated by Ezra Klein @ezraklein Oct 9, 2016, 8:30a
What happened Saturday in American politics was profound, and for Donald Trump, it marks the likely death of his presidential campaign. The permission structure that was slowly, reluctantly built around Trump by the media, by the Republican Party, by the conservative movement, and by Trump himself, is crumbling, and there is no time to rebuild it before the election.
Since Trump won the GOP primary, his party has been working to normalize an abnormal, unpopular, and frankly bizarre candidate. Trump has always had the support of his hardcore fans but he needed more than that. He needed the mainstream Republicans who didnt vote in the GOP primaries, or voted for someone else; he needed the independents who didnt like Clinton, but didnt trust Trump; he needed the movement conservatives who had entered politics to ban abortion and shrink the government, and who saw little of their crusade reflected in Trumps history.
Trump needed, to put it simply, the support of a lot of voters who didnt like him.
And so the party began to make its pitch. Mitch McConnell endorsed Donald Trump, and so, eventually, did Paul Ryan. Fox News ended its brief feud with the Republican nominee and closed ranks around his campaign. Reince Priebus dispatched top RNC staffers to work for Trumps campaign. Marco Rubio offered his support. The messaging was simple, and sober: better Trump than Hillary, better the lunatic who will nominate our judges and sign our tax bills than the liberal who wont, and even if you dont believe in any of that, better to support Trump and keep the House then to abandon him and witness the return of Speaker Pelosi.
The process took on its own momentum. To be a Republican in good standing, in recent months, has meant accepting Trump as the partys nominee, and working to see him elected. As more Republicans backed Trump, the rest had to follow suit. John McCain endorsed Trump, even though Trump had mocked his war heroism. Ted Cruz endorsed Trump, even though Trump tied his father to JFKs assassination and mocked his wifes looks.
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http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/9/13213234/donald-trump-tape-republicans-supporting
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This is Donald Trump’s worst nightmare (Original Post)
DonViejo
Oct 2016
OP
"his party has been working to normalize an abnormal, unpopular, and frankly bizarre candidate"
anamandujano
Oct 2016
#4
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)1. Trump's worst nightmare is ...
being poor.
Cakes488
(874 posts)2. and no media attention
Maeve
(42,282 posts)3. No, it's being ignored.
Donald who???
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)4. "his party has been working to normalize an abnormal, unpopular, and frankly bizarre candidate"
Thanks for subjecting the country to this rot frackers.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)5. Not yet, seems like The Baskets are ok with sexual assault of women