I am very curious how Trump is able to gain so much traction even though he is so politically

[akbacchus_BC]

incorrect! Do you think a segment of the population agree with him? Trump is obnoxious beyond belief and yet he has supporters.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. He is obnoxious, and he speaks for those who are also obnoxious!

[akbacchus_BC]

4. Thank you Miss Peggy. Can you imagine him as a President? POS referring to babies born

in the US in such a derogatory term. He is not fit to be President except for his empire where he can hire and fire people at his will. He is not Presidential material at all.

I get that the American people are tired of the Bushes and the Clintons but Hilary would be 100% better than trump. I really want VP Biden to run.

[Xipe Totec]

2. On average, 50% of the population is below average intelligence.

34% of them are low normal.

The rest are Republicans.

[akbacchus_BC]

6. Thanks, and that is because a lot of Americans look at effing reality shows!

They cannot come to terms with reality or real life. I think reality shows need to get rid of. It is dumbing down people. Can you imagine looking at a housewife show or the fucking kardashians and feel it is real. That is the dumbing down of America and Canada too. Most likely, the whole world which access to those shit shows.

People do not think anymore. You have an asshole like trump going on tv bashing health care and folks believe that idiot. Even though, thousands of Americans have benefited from Health Care and ACA.

And what pisses me off is that CNN and MSNBC has this asshole trump all the time. Who you think the idiots will believe?

[Trajan]

3. Widespread ignorance ..

In full display ...

No surprise here ...

[akbacchus_BC]

9. What I really do not understand is how

CNN and MSNBC is covering trump! He is not only obnoxious but totally not even ready to be President. Can you imagine him going up against Mrs. Clinton. She will wipe his ass clean and tell him to go back and fire people on his TV show. Piece a shit gaining momentum and Americans backing this dipshit.

[murielm99]

12. He is getting more coverage

than anyone. He does not have to finance a campaign. The media is doing it for him.

[underthematrix]

5. WHITE RACISM among

uneducated working class and poor whites. Recall he was doing his NAZI rally in the deep south (Alabama)

[akbacchus_BC]

10. I understand that racism still exists but am very sure not many

minorities will vote for a Republican. Republicans even hate white people who are poor, they expect the poor to pull themselves up with their boot straps, never understood how that works.

Mind you, looking at CNN, there seems to be a few Latinos who love Trump, but they are in the media. I wonder in real life, how many Latinos would vote for him.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. There is a segment of poor white Americans

Who don't believe the Republicans are talking about them.

It's that person over there ----------> that Republicans are talking about.

Close to 40 years after Reagan's speech in Philadelphia Mississippi - the mantra of 'welfare queen' and what that looks like has become embedded in that certain segment. They also tend to be people of the lie and paranoid about 'the other'.

[pipoman]

7. A section of the population is completely and totally pissed

And over Washington insiders, career politicians, corrupt assholes...they don't really care who just that they aren't above...dems have Bernie, thugs have Trump

[David__77]

8. What's been called "right-wing populism" has a definite following.

Opposition to immigration in the name of the rights and economic position of citizens. Labor unions have taken those positions in the past, I believe. Campaigning against "politics as usual." I personally think that it's likely that many people view Trump as more honest than most political candidates and, with his assertiveness, perhaps more likely to get things done (what "things" those might be). I also think that many people think most politicians are rather unethical individuals, taken to lying - I could see many people viewing Trump as ethical by comparison. That's not my personal view. I have no idea whether or not he's saying what he intends to do.

I can imagine Trump becoming president. I find it unlikely. At the same time, I can imagine it.

[Hortensis]

17. Also, "bircherism" is very much alive on the right, without the label, and Trump is rallying them,

at least temporarily.

Characteristics of bircherites:
Very conservative.
Anti-establishment.
Extremely nationalistic and pro aggressive, violent international policies.
Very anti-compromise, tending to interpret as weakness and betrayal.
Anti-communist, of course.
Prone to interpreting events they don't like in terms of malignant conspiracies.
Strong fundamental religion in many members, none in others.
Very ethonocentric. Always very anti-immigration and strongly and actively biased against far more groups than not.
Very anti-government. "Small government" was a Bircher rallying cry long before most of today's Americans were born. There's a heavy anti-regulation, libertarian strain in bircherism. "We have to get off the backs of business."

Any of this sound familiar? Try laying this template over today's right-of-moderate conservatives. Or checking out today's energized JBS web site.

Trump may not be the right leader for this very frustrated and angry crowd of reactionaries, but of all the candidates his irresponsible statements come closest to speaking for them. And they're roaring back their excited approval. It'll be interesting to see how far Trump will go to hold onto their support, to keep them from turning on him. They're VERY good at that!

[Ken Burch]

11. A significant sector of the electorate thinks the president should be a total bastard.

Why? who knows. Possibly they were raised by abusive parents and believe that the way Trump acts is what a "real man" is supposed to be like. That bullying is strength.

Perhaps some of them see themselves in him.

[JustAnotherGen]

14. There's some truth in that

Check out the book Republican Gomorrah and the Rushdooney followers.

[Hortensis]

18. Here, Christian reconstructionist and theocratic libertarian ideas are heard a lot.

I don't think most of the people expressing them realize that behind them are real movements that would destroy our democracy. They just support "a little religion" in government as a good thing. They are very opposed to fascism. They know THAT's bad, just don't seem to realize just what it is as they promote fascist-leaning practices.

[randome]

15. I've been saying it for years: no one is in charge of the GOP.

Bush, Junior followed by McCain/Palin followed by Romney followed by Trump.

Admittedly, Romney is not as intrinsically awful as Palin so the progression is not flawlessly linear but the overall pattern is easy to see, isn't it?

The GOP is dying out. We need to help the process along.
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[leftofcool]

16. Looks like the Donald is in charge of it now. Yipeeeeeeeee!

[randome]

19. I'm mighty curious to see who will be worse than Trump at the next Presidential election.

The mind reels.
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