Post-election Post-mortem Prior Prognostication Thread

[Wanderfound]

For example, in the “toldya so” column:

@Wanderfound

[quote=“daneel, post:315, topic:65103, full:true”]The Trump effect?

And the theocrats out for the court, and the Confederates out to celebrate the end of Obama.

It’s going to be a banner year for hateful fuckwit turnout; unless the Democrats match it (:cough:Bernie:cough:), we’re all screwed.
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@Wanderfound

Clinton: “Donald Trump is an ignorant misogynist bigot; his own words prove it”

Trump supporters: “Yes, we know, that’s why we voted for him”

Clinton is doing everything possible to hand this election to Trump. Purely negative campaigning based on a bizarrely persistent delusion that this is a business-as-usual election.

Just the thing to drive voter turnout through the floor. Add the effect of the GOPs voter suppression efforts across the South, mix in the additional impact of some election-day violence and intimidation by Trumpeter goons, and say hello to President Trump.

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@Kimmo

That’s my point; how could this shit be anything other than a deliberate attempt to be as awful as possible? We’re being trolled by the guys running the simulator.

It’s based on the accurate observation that “as awful as possible” is a reliable winning strategy within the GOP electorate. Republicans who tried to moderate their awfulness got primaried by the Tea Party.

Trump’s strategy isn’t based on winning over Democrats. He’s planning on getting out the base and trying to prevent anyone else from voting. The destruction of the Voting Rights Act made this possible.