Donald Trump is a serious contender for presidency in 2016

[jwtemp]

Looks like Trump is going to take Super Tuesday today to be the Republican nominee for president. The Democratic nominee is expected to be Hillary Clinton after tonight.

This is terrifying to me for multiple reasons. Discuss.

[StarsMine]

Hillary is hated, not as hated as trump. Trump support is narrow and deep, majority of republicans hate him, majority of independents hate him. The question is, does that majority hate him more then hillary? im going with yes.

[jwtemp]

I loathe Donald Trump. He is literally the antithesis of everything I value - xenophobic, racist, extreme capitalist, liar, thief, thug, arrogant and, worst of all of these, incredibly wealthy not because of some kind of gumption or ability or intelligence or hard ass work, but instead because of the broken state of our wealth, inheritance and capitalist system in America.

I'm not a huge fan of Hillary. True career politician - deceptive, conniving, ruthless, liar, thief and indebted to corporate America and Wall Street more than anyone likes to talk about. Her policies are pretty much ho-hum politician too - we wouldn't see much major change under her presidency, it would likely be status quo. But I swear I would vote for a Goddamn monkey before I voted for Donald Trump

Seriously - a reality TV star and racist bigot is leading the polls, about the clinch the Republican nomination and could truly be President of the United States of America. It's so surreal. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I think that a majority of this country would ever want that man to be their president.

Then I remember most people make up their mind about their vote because of a campaign slogan or a buzzword, and don't actually do concrete research or fact checking, and it occurs to me that people are voting for him simply because 'he's going to make America great again.' It's a joke. A ruse. It's a campaign run on hatred and anger, appealing to fears and bias, and the hayseeds are eating up that slop like it's the second coming.

Make room Canucks, you potentially have many new residents moving in come November.

[JoeniiChan]

I loathe Donald Trump. He is literally the antithesis of everything I value - xenophobic, racist, extreme capitalist, liar, thief, thug, arrogant and, worst of all of these, incredibly wealthy not because of some kind of gumption or ability or intelligence or hard ass work, but instead because of the broken state of our wealth, inheritance and capitalist system in America.

I'm not a huge fan of Hillary. True career politician - deceptive, conniving, ruthless, liar, thief and indebted to corporate America and Wall Street more than anyone likes to talk about. Her policies are pretty much ho-hum politician too - we wouldn't see much major change under her presidency, it would likely be status quo. But I swear I would vote for a Goddamn monkey before I voted for Donald Trump

Seriously - a reality TV star and racist bigot is leading the polls, about the clinch the Republican nomination and could truly be President of the United States of America. It's so surreal. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I think that a majority of this country would ever want that man to be their president.

Then I remember most people make up their mind about their vote because of a campaign slogan or a buzzword, and don't actually do concrete research or fact checking, and it occurs to me that people are voting for him simply because 'he's going to make America great again.' It's a joke. A ruse. It's a campaign run on hatred and anger, appealing to fears and bias, and the hayseeds are eating up that slop like it's the second coming.

Make room Canucks, you potentially have many new residents moving in come November.

Capitalism works.

It's corporatism that ruins things.

[Nemesis]

Man, just goes to show how fucking stupid Americans are.

[jwtemp]

Man, just goes to show how fucking stupid Americans are.

I can't believe I'm actually going to say this... I think you're right Nem. It's forehead smackingly, head shakingly unbelievable.

[$Money$]

best thing to happen to America.

[The Fox]

I am not going to vote as I would hate to have either, but if I was forced, I would pick trump out of curiosity. I already know what to expect from hillary, but I am confused as to what donald would actually do, naturally congress would block any of his extreme ideas, so would it actually change anything at all? It's a curious thought. Besides regardless of what happens, it won't have a significant affect on me, if things go bad I could just migrate to a different country.

[ZERO]

When people drop out it frees up their delegates to vote for whom ever they want although they are expected to vote for whoever their candidate has announced support for. Thus if everyone else in the race dropped out except for Cruz and endorsed him then he would win. The problem with this is that the establishment is against both Cruz and Trump; however, when forced to choose between the two it is more likely to throw its support behind Cruz over trump. Many may be confused by how Trump got endorsed by Christie. If no one endorsed trump and literally everyone endorsed another candidate and this resulted in Trump being trumped in delegate count then he would flip out and run on a 3rd ticket. So instead the desision to give him some support but in such a way that does not have any real effect in delegate allocation will create sufficient illusion of balance. Obviously the preferred solution for the RNC would be that Cruz was not doing well as they would be happy to have Rubio as he is an establishment Republican. However as this is not the case they will likely try to broker a deal with Cruze over his VP pick in order to hand him the win. The real question is how long will this go before the party backs down and feels that it can get behind Cruz.

[jwtemp]

When people drop out it frees up their delegates to vote for whom ever they want although they are expected to vote for whoever their candidate has announced support for. Thus if everyone else in the race dropped out except for Cruz and endorsed him then he would win. The problem with this is that the establishment is against both Cruz and Trump; however, when forced to choose between the two it is more likely to throw its support behind Cruz over trump. Many may be confused by how Trump got endorsed by Christie. If no one endorsed trump and literally everyone endorsed another candidate and this resulted in Trump being trumped in delegate count then he would flip out and run on a 3rd ticket. So instead the desision to give him some support but in such a way that does not have any real effect in delegate allocation will create sufficient illusion of balance. Obviously the preferred solution for the RNC would be that Cruz was not doing well as they would be happy to have Rubio as he is an establishment Republican. However as this is not the case they will likely try to broker a deal with Cruze over his VP pick in order to hand him the win. The real question is how long will this go before the party backs down and feels that it can get behind Cruz.

I admit I haven't followed the process as closely as I should have. This is great information and pretty objective I really appreciate you sharing it Zero. It's funny, for years I've felt as if we've elected 'the lesser of two evils' - ironic that it now seems the GOP has to do exactly the same thing during this clearly tumultuous time for the party.