06-26-2016, 09:06 PM
(06-26-2016, 08:04 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(06-26-2016, 12:33 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I'm also seeing some incredibly bad national polls for Donald Trump, with him behind anywhere from 5% to 13%. One does not usually see the meltdown of a political campaign before his Party's convention.
How badly would it have to melt down for him to back out? Really strange election.
This is a 4T. All sorts of strange things are possible. In a 4T, even precedent becomes brittle.
I see the GOP establishment and the Democratic Establishment both failing in this 4T -- but the GOP Establishment is disintegrating first.
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.