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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
It's weird to be saying this for (I think) the second time--but here is a good article by David Frum, regarding the dilemma that Republican conservative voters face in the US right now:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...o-vote/504977/
Although I am not of that stripe I can sympathize with the issues set out here, and while we are all mocking the GOP for nominating such an obviously unqualified boor, it is worth asking: what if Democrats had done the same? What if Trump were running as a Democrat against a tarnished and unpopular but still-competent GOP candidate? (Romney 2.0, let's say).
I suspect the shoe would be on the other foot in every sense, and though Romney would likely win (for the same reasons that Clinton will likely win) there would be a lot of "deplorable" democrats holding their noses and casting ballots for Trump. It is an unhealthy side effect of the polarized two-party system. |
The thing is, the Republicans have better candidates, but somehow Trump won the nomination. They would have been better going off the board with someone relatively unknown.
I kind of missed the build up to how Trump actually got here, but would the Democrats even make this kind of mistake? For example, who would the Democrat equivalent be? I just couldn't see them going down the celebrity path instead of picking a career politician.