(03-14-2017, 02:10 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(03-14-2017, 12:18 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I would argue that 1980 was a fluke election, and the handsome actor beat the "malaise" president just because he was charming. But the fluke has lasted 40 years.
A "fluke" that lasts that long is not a fluke.
Even I can agree with that. 1976 was the fluke because one of the weakest campaigners ran against an even weaker campaigner.
Demographic trends can work against President Trump. Bait-and-switch is bad policy. But we shall see in 2020, right?
...I have no idea of to what I can compare the 2016 election.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.