(06-27-2016, 10:54 PM)Eric the Green 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.
I think it should be a much bigger gap. This is not a big enough meltdown to anywhere near cause the Trumpet to back out.
There may be no good model for this year in Presidential politics. What's good for Donald Trump?
1. There will not be a contest in the Republican Convention. It will be the Donald Trump Show. The situation in which the acceptance speech is given at 3AM EDT because that is when the last ballot decides who will be the Presidential nominee is held will not happen.
2. Mass ignorance, and worse, the intellectual laziness of so many people, is endemic in America.
3. Donald Trump speaks in polarized terms like "WINNER" and "LOSER". He offers simple solutions for great problems. Millions like that.
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.