CalvinBall wrote:Trump can predict terrorism by feel. Historians don't know things because they weren't there.


This guy is spiraling out of control.

td11 wrote:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rubio-gods-rules-trump-supreme-court

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Trump mocks reporter's disability

pacino wrote:Ted Cruz appeared at a 'Religious Liberties' event with a pastor that thinks we should round up gays and kill them. He's probably going to be the Republican nominee.

pacino wrote:

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Trump mocks reporter's disability

Holy shit

And yet, for all the poetic justice, this doesn't quite capture what's happening. Parties and politics inflect and harness trends in the broader society. They don't create them. There's nothing new under the sun about Trumpism. It's just a turbo-charged, more media savvy version of the resentment politics the GOP has been tapping for fuel and riding for decades. The familiarity of the Trump message comes across clearly in that aforementioned Washington Post article where those pushing a Stop Trump movement don't focus on the racism or xenophobia but on Trump's past support for universal health care or the Clintons. In other words, there's apparently no stopping Trump on the right. Or as Romney guru and former top aide Eric Fehrnstrom told The Boston Globe: “These Republican candidates haven’t figured out a successful way to disqualify Trump. Attacking him from the left is a losing strategy in our primary.” The only viable attack is that he's actually too liberal or is merely a cynical manipulator pretending to embrace hard right politics for his own gain.

Monkeyboy wrote:he's trying to lose at this point, right?

Swiggers wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:he's trying to lose at this point, right?

I really can't figure out what his endgame is except maybe to throw the election to Hillary.

Most likely it's just massive ego gratification and he's just making up shit as he goes along.

drsmooth wrote:Turnip is heavy, smelly, smegmatic garbage that will drag on whomever the Rs nominate at this point. That worthy will be asked frequently where they were when Trump was the party's leader and they didn't blast him & his bullshit, & because those likeliest to supplant him didn't do so, that will be a hard question for them to address.

No R nominee currently campaigning has a detectable chance to win the office anyway, but Turnip's very existence is comprehensively bad for Republicans