Even with the polarization of the electorate, against Trump she really should be able to get closer to results more like Reagan vs Mondale, Nixon vs McGovern, LBJ vs Goldwater than she is going to. Mind you, she’d probably be losing to Cruz or Kasich…
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She sort of is, but it’s a tricky proposition because it’s simply not exciting. She had two major speeches in the last two weeks to announce policies about mental health and ocean conservation, but “Clinton first candidate to have an ocean-specific platform plank” doesn’t grab attention the same way “Trump meets with foreign leader who compared him to Hitler” does.
Yes, it’s the same old “blame the media” story. sigh. Hopefully in the debates she’ll be able to put out her own talking points instead of being led to wasting the whole time talking about how wrong Trump is.
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It’s interesting comparing and contrasting the campaign merchandise available in both candidates’ online stores. Hillary leans heavily on “I’m With Her” slogans, artist-created posters and shirts, female-empowerment merch such as a leather day planner that says “Madam President”, and a few down-with-Trump items. But I’d say 90% of the merch in the Trump store is virulently anti-Hillary. I feel like for all the talk of racism and anti-immigrant rhetoric, a massive chunk of Trump voters are just folks who want to stick it to Hillary (or the Clintons in general, or Obama-by-association).
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As we’re way past Godwining this apricot fucknugget what with all the talk of mass deportation and ideological certification, perhaps someone can tell me if he’s actually used the phrase “final solution” yet?
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GA is becoming a toss-up too now.
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But thats exactly why Trump doesn’t perform like Mondale, McGovern, and Goldwater. That polarization didn’t exist when those dudes were running, it is new. Taken together with the general extremity of the conservative movement these days. As extreme as he is he’s not particularly extreme for a Republican. This election lacks the two big things that made those previous contenders crater hard. A position that is extreme even for their own party, and an electorate that’s willing to vote for a party they aren’t a member of.
Add that in with the general state of things and Trump is basically getting floated by circumstances beyond our control.
You can even see that partisan lock in the arguments Republicans are giving for supporting the guy, even when they openly despise him. We have to vote for him for the supreme court. We have to vote for him or risk a decade of Republican losses. And so on and so forth. Its more about bolstering one’s party than it is about the world surviving past February.
What if that’s the point? Laying the groundwork for his media empire on the backs of people who live in an echo chamber?
While I’m sure that’s on his mind. And its the original goal for most GOP primary candidates the last few cycles. That’s the same sort of wishful thinking that has/had people speculating that he would drop out when the polls weren’t as close. The idea that he’s deliberately going to tank the election is just as much of a fantasy as the claims that Hillary is going to go to prison any day now and hand a landslide to Trump or a resurrected Bernie Sanders.
Before the last few weeks he was also spending an awful lot of effort in reliably blue states he had no chance of winning. There are rumors/anonymous claims coming out of Hillary’s camp that they deliberately played up the closeness of places like Georgia and SC, set up stronger operations there, and planned some events and expenditures to get Trump to spend more in those states. Any reliable GOP pickup where a plausible case for a Hillary Push can be made. And Trump legitimately has been spending more resources in such states lately, at the apparent expense of his operations in critical swing states. Hillary’s campaign has the resources to do that, increase action in states their unlikely to win for appearances and just in case. Trumps campaign doesn’t have the resources necessary to throw at places they’re already winning. So there’s a decent chance that Trump’s heavy involvement their is down to being lead on by the nose by a better run operation. And before, well now, he was constantly going on about “changing the map” winning CT, NY, California and other places where that’s just not going to happen, also at the expense of critical swing states. Leading to public decent from his campaign crew about his insistence on wasting limited resources there. He spent a lot deliberately preaching to the un-convertible.
That doesn’t strike me as some sort of cryptic marketing campaign for a new media Empire.
DDOS on fact-checkers
Love it!
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Not necessarily so; this is Trump’s ‘ideological certification’. It probably includes injunctions against things like “uppitiness”.
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Hitch really needed a drink right about then. He looks like he’s on the verge of delerium tremens.
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Not in public…
Haven’t you been paying attention?
Hillary’s the real Nazi.
As long as they have this equivalency to hold on to, they’re blind to reality.
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The author is projecting projection itself! Neat trick.
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