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Re: I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Here's some different math. Trump should not have been able to get the amount of votes he did, at all, anywhere. A candidate like him in years past would have been bulldozed by someone with a machine like Clinton's.
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This can be said only if you don't know anything about polarization and can pretend that most Republicans are reasonable people who might not vote for an inexperienced, narcissistic, bigoted monster simply because he is the Republican nominee.
(eta: Incidentally, I've already said I was wrong in thinking that Trump would not be able to consolidate Republican support.)
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