2016 Presidential Primaries [ SUPER TUESDAY | 3-1-'16]

I can't help but wonder, though, if this type of protest doesn't simply serve as a kind of galvanizing mechanism for both the pre-existing Trump 'set' and portions of the Republican electorate which are on the fence. I mean the crux of Trump's entire platform essentially rests on the notion that America is spiraling out of control ... and we are suddenly seeing the bedlam manifest in an institution (the political process) which is traditionally so sacred and almost overwhelmingly shrouded in decorum. Of course, this is ignoring the reality that Trump himself is largely responsible for initially assailing the process to begin with. Nevertheless -- people are going to wake up in the morning and flip open their paper or turn on their TV and hear about thousands of 'protesters' wreaking havoc at a political rally and think, much like us in this thread, that the country is going to hell.

If history is any indicator, the populace gravitates towards the candidate who promulgates a law and order message. Irrespective of whether or not it's based in reality or not, Trump is that candidate.

The numbers in a few days will certainly tell the tale. But then again, we've been saying that for the past month.
 
Runnin said:
Trump's campaign would be nothing without anger, fear and ignorance.
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Obama was elected on the exact same adjectives, which his campaign was based on. Just presented in a different way. Anger at what G-Dub did, fear to the point that hope was the only answer, ignorance to the fact that in no way could Obama deliver his promise of hope or that we shouldn't already have hope in the country.
 
weso1 said:
There was never a serious effort in social media and the news media to link Obama to Satan using terrible logic.
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There was never a serious effort because he never did anything to warrant those nicknames.

But you can't tell me Trump's rhetoric whether real or fake does not insight emotions to people who were actually dictators. And then Trump has studied the body language of Franco and Mussolini it's almost the same.
 
Whether you like Trump or not, Trump isn't to blame for the disgusting behavior of protestors in Chicago. The media has blown a few instances out of proportion repeatedly and the anti-Trump crowd has been looking for a reason to behave like this.

The people of Chicago have a massive crime and violence problem for 30 years. If they got off their asses and organized to fix those problems as quick as they mobilized to violently disrupt a Trump rally there would be thousands fewer black men dead and tens of thousands fewer black men in prison.

On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me if the protesters were GOP operatives, either
 
Hawk said:
I can't help but wonder, though, if this type of protest doesn't simply serve as a kind of galvanizing mechanism for both the pre-existing Trump 'set' and portions of the Republican electorate which are on the fence. I mean the crux of Trump's entire platform essentially rests on the notion that America is spiraling out of control ... and we are suddenly seeing the bedlam manifest in an institution (the political process) which is traditionally so sacred and almost overwhelmingly shrouded in decorum. Of course, this is ignoring the reality that Trump himself is largely responsible for initially assailing the process to begin with. Nevertheless -- people are going to wake up in the morning and flip open their paper or turn on their TV and hear about thousands of 'protesters' wreaking havoc at a political rally and think, much like us in this thread, that the country is going to hell.

If history is any indicator, the populace gravitates towards the candidate who promulgates a law and order message. Irrespective of whether or not it's based in reality or not, Trump is that candidate.

The numbers in a few days will certainly tell the tale. But then again, we've been saying that for the past month.
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Good angle. I think the only thing that doesn't work in Trump's favor is that unlike a lot of earlier law-and-order types, he doesn't project the same level of respectability. He's somewhat in the George Wallace mode without a constitutional theory--states' rights in Wallace's case--to back him up. Different era though.
 
sturg33 said:
Whether you like Trump or not, Trump isn't to blame for the disgusting behavior of protestors in Chicago. The media has blown a few instances out of proportion repeatedly and the anti-Trump crowd has been looking for a reason to behave like this.

The people of Chicago have a massive crime and violence problem for 30 years. If they got off their asses and organized to fix those problems as quick as they mobilized to violently disrupt a Trump rally there would be thousands fewer black men dead and tens of thousands fewer black men in prison.

On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me if the protesters were GOP operatives, either
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And on another it wouldn't surprise me if the protestors were a Soros rent-a-mob. So many ugly options here.
 
I thought of this immediately when Trump said "There used to be consequences."

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weso1 said:
Obama was elected on the exact same adjectives, which his campaign was based on. Just presented in a different way. Anger at what G-Dub did, fear to the point that hope was the only answer, ignorance to the fact that in no way could Obama deliver his promise of hope or that we shouldn't already have hope in the country.
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Kudos for ingenuity. That's funny.

Actually, Obama has delivered quite a lot. I would bet that the country would, right now, if given a serious option of another 4 year Obama term, choose him over continuing this election.
 
So it was Soros...figures. What a perfect story - Chump, chumpsters, Soros, and a rent-a-mob - the worst of our political spectrum - and in Chicago. Oi vey!
 
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