What prevents Trump from being given a 'fair chance'

[Captain Obvious]

LOL
So it's no longer Hillary's fault that Trump won the US election. It's the rest of the world that caused it!
Now I have heard everything.

I've never said Rodham lost the election, I've been saying that the Trump phenomenon is a direct product of out-of-control "progress".

Try to keep up.

[patrickt]

Lets assume that liberals take him out of context. Lets assume that he is not racist, sexist, hasn't assaulted a dozen women, and hasn't spent his career cheating people out of money. Lets also assume that he did not champion the birther movement, and doesn't (for example) want the Central Park Five locked up or executed, even though they've long been proven innocent.

What prevents Trump from being given a chance (by people like me) is a lack of accountability. He's not held to any standard, and can basically do whatever he wants, flip flop, lie, and generally do stuff that would get Obama or anyone else tarred and feathered. The guy tweets conspiracy theories by Alex Jones. He hires people that have literally done the stuff that he slammed Hillary Clinton for, if he hasn't done it himself -- or worse.

I feel that if his critics gave him a chance, then absolutely no one would hold him accountable. He would be normalized from all angles.

Even if you disagree with everything I said, can we agree that Trump is held to a different standard than basically everyone?

Tell me how your rant would not apply to Barack Obama? Barack Obama has never been held accountable for anything he said or done.

[patrickt]

Lets assume that liberals take him out of context. Lets assume that he is not racist, sexist, hasn't assaulted a dozen women, and hasn't spent his career cheating people out of money. Lets also assume that he did not champion the birther movement, and doesn't (for example) want the Central Park Five locked up or executed, even though they've long been proven innocent.

What prevents Trump from being given a chance (by people like me) is a lack of accountability. He's not held to any standard, and can basically do whatever he wants, flip flop, lie, and generally do stuff that would get Obama or anyone else tarred and feathered. The guy tweets conspiracy theories by Alex Jones. He hires people that have literally done the stuff that he slammed Hillary Clinton for, if he hasn't done it himself -- or worse.

I feel that if his critics gave him a chance, then absolutely no one would hold him accountable. He would be normalized from all angles.

Even if you disagree with everything I said, can we agree that Trump is held to a different standard than basically everyone?

Tell me how your rant would not apply to Barack Obama? Barack Obama has never been held accountable for anything he said or done.

I didn't vote for Trump since I'd taken an oath to never vote for another Democrat but I will wait to see what he does. Donald Trump may not love America but at least there is no evidence he hates America.

[Peter1469]

An IQ of 75 sounds about right, yes. It should be noted, however, that famed fictional moron Forrest Gump had a wider vocabulary and was a more eloquent speaker, so 75 might be on the high side of things.

Trump voters can be broken down into four main categories: the uneducated who watch too much cable TV and read too much fake online news, the literal morons who comprise about 12-15% of American society, the manipulators who see in Trump an opportunity to get their agenda passed and, finally, those who either hate Clinton or are just so sick of establishment politics that they'll give anyone a shot.

Within those groups, there are a wide assortment of views.

The same sorts of stories were told about the Brexit voters.

Next up, a constitutional referendum in Italy and then national elections in France and Germany.

Nationalism v. globalism is what we are seeing at play.

[Captain Obvious]

LOL
So it's no longer Hillary's fault that Trump won the US election. It's the rest of the world that caused it!
Now I have heard everything.

Also, for the record, I was predicting a Rodham landslide.

In'nt that right @Peter1469 ?

[MisterVeritis]

Also, for the record, I was predicting a Rodham landslide.
In'nt that right @Peter1469 ?

I may have mentioned that Trump would win, once or twice.

[Captain Obvious]

I may have mentioned that Trump would win, once or twice.

You're a better man than me, if I was predicting a Trump win all along I'd still be shamelessly doing victory laps.

[MisterVeritis]

You're a better man than me, if I was predicting a Trump win all along I'd still be shamelessly doing victory laps.

I suspected it very early in the primary campaign. Then I remained certain except for one two-hour period.

Trump's victory buys time to put the Article V convention of states in place. He will have his ups and downs. If the nation is to live we must move the convention of states forward.

[Captain Obvious]

I suspected it very early in the primary campaign. Then I remained certain except for one two-hour period.

Trump's victory buys time to put the Article V convention of states in place. He will have his ups and downs. If the nation is to live we must move the convention of states forward.

The "grab them by the $#@!" thing?

I watched that debate right after that came out and I saw, initially a dejected Trump who seemed to have realized that the campaign was over.

By the end of the debate that vision vanished.

I did a couple times consider voting for Trump but I just couldn't in good conscience. But I'm glad he won.

[Peter1469]

Also, for the record, I was predicting a Rodham landslide.

In'nt that right @Peter1469 ?

Yes. Very few people predicted that Trump would win.