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[SirQuiamus]

The only way to destroy Trump is to destroy the media, and that ain't gonna happen any time soon.

Or he loses the election, stops being interesting and goes back to reality TV.  If he loses once, no one is going to give a shit about him the second time.

I don't think Trump can really lose at this point. He's already been "winning" enough to turn every subsequent loss into a legitimate anti-Trump conspiracy in the minds of his supporters. Just like the Iowa caucuses, remember?

I mean, if the GOP nomination goes to Not-Trump because of a brokered convention, that is definitely a Trump-win because "CUCKSERVATIVES STOLE NOMINATION TRUMP 4EVA NEVA 4GET" (...and RIP GOP as a hilarious (un)intentional after-effect).

If Trump loses the general election to Hillary, that's definitely a "DIMMYCRATE ELITE STOLE PRESIDENCY TRUMP 4EVA NEVA 4GET" situation (...and say hello to American politics with more than two parties).

It's a 10/10 win/win for Trump in any case. Very well played, even for a professional reality TV celeb with five decades of experience in playing the media.

EDIT:
Scott has written a funny/depressing review of Trump's magnum opus.

Spoiler: choice quote (click to show/hide)

But there’s still something alien about Trump here, even moreso than with the populist demagogue of the campaign trail. Trump the demagogue is attacked as anti-intellectual. I get anti-intellectualism because – like all isms – it’s an intellectual idea, and I tend to think in those terms. But Trump of the book is more a-intellectual, in the same way some people are amoral or asexual. The world is taken as a given. It contains deals. Some people make the deals well, and they are winners. Other people make the deals poorly, and they are losers. Trump does not need more than this. There will be no civilization of philosopher-Trumps asking where the first deal came from, or whether a deal is a deal only by virtue of its participation in some primordial deal beyond material existence. Trump’s world is so narrow it’s hard to fit your head inside it, so narrow that on contact with any wider world it seems strange and attenuated, a broken record of deals and connections and hirings expanding to fill the space available.

On the other hand, he made a billion dollars and will probably win the GOP nomination. So there’s that.

[RedKing]

"Someting Bad Happens Somewhere" ---> "CLOSE MEXICAN BORDER REMOVE ILLEGAL MEXICAN MUSLIM IMMIGRANT TERRORIST FROM THE PREMISES"

REMOVE FALAFEL TACO

[FearfulJesuit]

I just spent two hours against my better instincts arguing economic policy with a Trump supporter.

I have stared into the abyss of Donald Trump's America, and 20th-century Argentina gazed back into me.

[smjjames]

I just spent two hours against my better instincts arguing economic policy with a Trump supporter.

I have stared into the abyss of Donald Trump's America, and 20th-century Argentina gazed back into me.

Could you explain the reference, and which decade because a century is a long time?

[RedKing]

I just spent two hours against my better instincts arguing economic policy with a Trump supporter.

I have stared into the abyss of Donald Trump's America, and 20th-century Argentina gazed back into me.

Could you explain the reference, and which decade because a century is a long time?

I'm assuming Juan Peron. Also a populist demagogue who embraced corporatism and rejected traditional Left/Right politics, and was considered by many to be a quasi-fascist dictator.
Also, his followers were drawn most heavily from the popular masses, the descamisadoes or "shirtless ones".

Since Redcaps doesn't seem to be catching on the way I hoped, maybe we should refer to his followers as "Mad Hatters"?

[FearfulJesuit]

I just spent two hours against my better instincts arguing economic policy with a Trump supporter.

I have stared into the abyss of Donald Trump's America, and 20th-century Argentina gazed back into me.

Could you explain the reference, and which decade because a century is a long time?

I'm assuming Juan Peron. Also a populist demagogue who embraced corporatism and rejected traditional Left/Right politics, and was considered by many to be a quasi-fascist dictator.

It's not so much that- although, yeah, Perón and Trump do have some noted similarities. In the mid-1910s, Argentina was the richest country in the world, per capita...and then it basically got stuck there for the course of the 20th century. It's basically the only major country that's gone from first world to third world in the modern era, in no small part due to protectionism gone horribly wrong (though a history of political instability, including Washington-backed coups, certainly didn't help).

My debate partner, who wants to apply the corporate death penalty to any American firm that outsources, should flip through a history of the place, is all I'm saying.

[smirk]

If half-remembered bits of JL Borges serve me correctly, Peron is the one who took Argentina's promise to be a nation of the future and ran it into the mud.

E: yeah; what FJ said.

[smjjames]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-torture-waterboarding-brussels-221117 Maybe he should say that to our European allies and see how they respond, hm?

[Toady One]

CURRENTYEAR had several acccounts registered etc.  I just clipped it out since there was too much there to figure out what should be kept.  Doubt this is the last of it, the usual, etc.  Please try to stay on topic etc.

[smjjames]

CURRENTYEAR had several acccounts registered etc.  I just clipped it out since there was too much there to figure out what should be kept.  Doubt this is the last of it, the usual, etc.  Please try to stay on topic etc.

HA! I knew that guy had to have been a puppet, but who?....

Also, we DID get back on topic.

What I was going to post when it got locked:

Hm, some reports of voter suppression in Arizona: http://usuncut.com/news/arizona-polling-disaster/

Don't know how substantial it actually is, but something to keep an eye out for I guess. Haven't seen it mentioned on CNN or elsewhere though, besides a couple asides in the 538 liveblog sidebar.

edit: fixing terminology.

[RedKing]

Well....that was. A thing.



Anyways......should be seeing primary results coming in any minute now for Arizona. Trump and Clinton both up by about 10 in the polls, though the 'Zona polls are a bit for the Dem race.

[smirk]

CURRENTYEAR got banhammered then? Farewell our Trump supporter; we hardly knew ye.

Although you were probably a sock puppet of an older poster, so maybe we did know ye. Hmm.

[mainiac]

That was surprisingly civil for someone making sock puppets.

[RedKing]

That was surprisingly civil for someone making sock puppets.

That sounds like something somebody with sock puppets might say.....j/k 

I was actually worried someone had seriously reported you for sockpuppeting because of the jokes. What would I do without without a forum frenemy?

[Reelya]

Hm, some reports of voter fraud in Arizona: http://usuncut.com/news/arizona-polling-disaster/

"Voter fraud" really shouldn't be the correct terminology here because it implies fraud by individual voters, which is very rare.

If it's deliberate, something like ballot tampering or vote suppression would be more appropriate.