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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
You should have discerned Clovis's true colors weeks ago when he implied that the worst thing about Trump might be that he would destroy humanity with his climate policy rather than the fact that he doesn't like black people. What took you so long?
lol, remember how you thought Trump was a 5-sigma genius because he went to Wharton or whatever? You're so ****ing bad at this, it's embarrassing.
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Originally Posted by lycosid
Trump would have been live in 2012. Trayvon Martin died that spring, which turned a whole hell of a lot of white people against Obama, but Romney couldn't capitalize because he thought the GOP's disdain for the poor was actually directed at all poor people and not black people, specifically.
Sorta disagree. Trump barely eked out a win against Hillary, it's hard to imagine him beating a candidate with charisma and competence. Trump's big advantage would be the poor economy and white resentment over a black president. But then Romney campaigned hard on jobs and lost.
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Originally Posted by campfirewest
I don't think Trump would have had a chance in 2000. For him to have any chance it needs to be post financial crisis. That's really when things started to get crazy and the populism picked up.
Dunno. Populism, or rather faux populism, is sort of a universal constant in America politics. Think back to Andrew Jackson, or to Jefferson pretending to be a gentleman farmer.
In hindsight, I think there are a lot of parallels between 2016 and 2000. You've got Dems competently managing the country for 8 years and nominating a severely uncharismatic establishment figure. The R's respond with a bumbling rich doofus who pretends to be an outside-the-beltway cowboy (again, the faux populism). The R's go on to lose the popular vote but nab the Electoral College, and go on to forcibly sodomize the country.