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Originally Posted by Igottago
This is also a complete attack on the sensibility of what the US is (or once was) as a nation. The fact that he will probably continue to lead the republican nomination? Disgrace. To say the country is a mess is an understatement. The nation is gripped with some form of collective mental illness.
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Naw, the U.S. has a long history of enthusiasm for populist demagogues. Huey Long. Father Coughlin. Joseph McCarthy. George Wallace. We just don't have much of a cultural memory of politics before about 1968.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
It's up to the rest of the GOP slate of candidates to put Trump on an island by himself but none are willing to do so.
It makes sense for a guy like Rubio, Trump is a godsend. For the 'no chance in hell' crowd, now would be the time to differentiate themselves.
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That's what Nelson Rockefeller thought in '64, and Barry Goldwater trounced him. Of course Goldwater lost the general election, and Trump will too.