FJ....dat avatar....
It would be fascinating to see if "Maybe it says he's a Muslim" Donald "Nobody builds walls better than me" Trump could survive long enough to run in NC and carry the state. I think we have a huge untapped reservoir of crazy here. (in the primary).
Or survives Super Tuesday even. Since the number of states at once there makes it a kind of 'do or die' point.
He'll survive. The Atlantic has a good piece on this... the reason most candidates crash and burn is that their funding dries up, and that's not something Donald "Nobody builds walls better than me" Trump needs to worry about. Instead of sucking up to donors who want immigration reform, he can tell voters exactly what they want to hear. If it pays off, expect copycats in the future...
I can't imagine there being too large a pool of potential Trump copycats. Unless Mark Cuban decides to run somewhere down the road.
I think we've reached the point where Trump cannot be easily dismissed based on prior dynamics. This is a new ballgame, and one that is increasingly making me profoundly disturbed. Looking at the type of people that form his core base (online at least), I will volunteer and put in 30-40 hours a week working for his opponent if he gets the nomination. I don't care if that's Hillary or whoever. The idea that those kind of reactionary troglodytes could come be empowered into becoming "the mainstream" is frankly, fucking terrifying.
Yeah, I don't see him as being a very good president, at all. I'm almost inclined to vote for him as a 'fak you' to republicans to teach them a lession.
He'll probably have an even worse time with congress than even Carter (I heard that he had bad relations with congress, no idea who had it worse) since he's already alienated most of the establishment, so, I dunno........
Edit: You know, I wonder how well Trump would do in a poll in New York? Just wondering since in the latest polls, Scott Walker did well in his home state of Wisconscon, and New York is considered Trumps home state for all intents and purposes, right?
Also,
Trumps vitriol becomes physically manifest, I know theres always the crazies, but then there's Trumps lack of distancing himself from the violence.