06-15-2016, 04:37 PM
If 55% of registered voters cannot vote for Donald Trump, then his maximum level of support is 45%. His maximum is at the level at which a Democratic opponent has a chance to get 400 or more electoral votes.
Donald Trump has made some incredibly off-the-wall statements. First, there's the one in which he blames Islam for the massacre at a gay bar. Faulting the President for failing to say "Radical Islam" is like faulting Christianity for the ugliness of Godh@tesf@gs (which so far has stayed clear of murder). Besides, it is entirely possible that America will need to align itself with some radical sect of Islam in a struggle against a more orthodox manifestation of Islam that goes bad. Remember: there was nothing radical about the very secular practice of Islam in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Then comes the incredible accusation that American soldiers stole money intended for the reconstruction of Iraq... (1) which happened under George W. Bush, so this is an inapt time for any Republican to make such an accusation, (2) Barack Obama would have never gotten away with as a statement even if it were true during the 2008 campaign, and (3) is an insult to American soldiers, many of whose military stints are over. Is there anyone who can't find himself under some verbal attack of this crackpot?
Maybe contractors were ripping America off badly -- but that is for the legal process to work upon.
Donald Trump has made some incredibly off-the-wall statements. First, there's the one in which he blames Islam for the massacre at a gay bar. Faulting the President for failing to say "Radical Islam" is like faulting Christianity for the ugliness of Godh@tesf@gs (which so far has stayed clear of murder). Besides, it is entirely possible that America will need to align itself with some radical sect of Islam in a struggle against a more orthodox manifestation of Islam that goes bad. Remember: there was nothing radical about the very secular practice of Islam in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.
Then comes the incredible accusation that American soldiers stole money intended for the reconstruction of Iraq... (1) which happened under George W. Bush, so this is an inapt time for any Republican to make such an accusation, (2) Barack Obama would have never gotten away with as a statement even if it were true during the 2008 campaign, and (3) is an insult to American soldiers, many of whose military stints are over. Is there anyone who can't find himself under some verbal attack of this crackpot?
Maybe contractors were ripping America off badly -- but that is for the legal process to work upon.
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.