Trump 'does not have a campaign'

[Philly]

That's the amazing thing. The Republicans hate Clinton so much, and all they had to do was nominate a sane person to have a very good shot at beating her. Regardless of what you think of Clinton, it's impossible to deny that she has high negatives and is widely perceived as not being trustworthy by the electorate. You manage to face an opponent with that much baggage and any standard empty suit has a good shot. But she's going to win and it's probably not even going to be that close in the end because the GOPs chickens came home to roost. They've been conditioning their voter base to be hateful, small minded bigots for decades, while simultaneously f**k them over on substantive policy. When they realized that they've been getting f**k over, they just went for the most hateful candidate whose campaign platform included some nods to the raw deal they've been getting. And that guy happens to be a neofascist maniac.

[ToddStarnes]

The election of President Obama derailed the Republican party permanently. Seeing a black man ascend to the Oval Office was the last straw for conservatives.

[Philly]

[ToddStarnes]

[Philly]

The echo chamber is why. I met a Trump supporter who told me that Obama is the most unpopular president ever. That his approval rating is lower than Nixon's during Watergate or George W Bush's at the end. He refused to believe otherwise. I pulled up polling data from multiple sources on my phone. He said it doesn't matter. He said the polls are wrong. He said Obama is definitely the most unpopular president ever.

What must a person like this have thought when Obama got re-elected? Hard to imagine he just accepted that the majority of voters see things differently than him. Who knows what goes on in the craven depths of such a mind?

[ToddStarnes]

That was my cousin. Sorry about that. He knows not what he does.

[Philly]

The problem is that your cousin is both far from alone and far from a majority of the country. It's not all conservatives, but the most angry, ignorant, and almost always bigoted of the flock who just can't process the fact that a majority of Americans either like Obama or think "'meh, whatever" about Obama. The actual problem among every delusional political faction is assuming that the "meh, whatever" crowd is secretly on their side. They call it the "silent majority". They are silent for a reason: cause they don't really give a f**k.

[jimmyz]

[spacemonkey]

[ToddStarnes]

So you've dug deep into Trump's accomplishments and his pros and cons? Can you tell us more about this intensive research expedition and what tidbits of wisdom you uncovered along the way?