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You're smoking crack.
Trump will probably win Texas,
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I think you're smoking crack there. This waterhead's got nothing in the bank, and is now fully committed to an isolationist/anti-immigrant platform. Even if he gets all the xenophobes in TX, there's no way people in the tech and energy industries are buying onto his platform. Couple them with the anti-wall voters and Trump's got a tough road in TX.
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My problem with Trump is he's a Democrat. Or at least he was that, or Reform Party, before deciding to run as an R last year, while still not even paying lip service to most Republican principles.
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Of the 999 most people have, this isn't typically one. I like the fact that Trump was a moderate Democrat. Moderate Democrats and Republicans are the best kind. Pro-business, fiscally sensible, and socially liberal.
Yes, my Libertarian side would prefer a true free market proponent. But we're never going fix any of the problems in this country until we have a near armageddon collapse of some sort, or a pitchforks in the street revolution (and even then, there's a good chance we'll just degrade into a deeply class divide society like Brazil). So... During this somewhat calm period before the math finally, really catches up with us, why not have a moderate in office? Make the waning years of the Republic as we knew it - the American Dream we've all enjoyed - a little less volatile?
I fully realize I'm arguing Trump is a moderate here, which is a Bizarro Universe situation.
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Even the Chamber of Commerce opposes Trump. We are writing checks to Senate Conservatives Fund-backed candidates only.
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Good luck with that. What you and so many other GOP traditionalists seem unable to process is, Your Conservatism is Dead. That old game of servicing the rich with the votes of the rubes? Well, the Internet spoiled that for you. Joe Shit-For-Brains Middle Class GOP Rube now understands how bad he was getting fucked by "conservatives." He's not switching to the Democrats, because they're fucking him just as hard. Instead, he's picking up a pitchfork, and voting for populists.
It's over. Conservatism was a lie from the start (Reagan ballooned the debt, starting this whole mess), and it only survived because the public didn't have access to information. The rabble isn't so easily led around by the nose anymore. They don't believe the GOP, and they shouldn't. You "conservatives" have no message with which to compete with the Democrats, who are going to kick your asses for the indefinite future by holding onto their voting bloc with promises of a more expansive nanny state.
You had a chance with Trump. But the pricks who run your party would rather stay atop the collapsing scaffolding of "conservatism" than allow populists some power in the GOP. You fucked it up. You really fucked it up.
