What Are All The Handwringers Worried About?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-35703300
Trump's a lightweight apparently.

[sp1814]

youngmafbog

Do you think that Trump and Le Penn play the race card too?

Or not?

[jim360]

Thanks ymb, I'm reassured by that at least. All the same, I (think I) get what is popular about Trump too. Problem is that it is also all-too-transparently short-term at best. The failure of more typical politics doesn't help matters but that doesn't mean people should be turning to the "answers" Trump is offering. And it surely falls on everyone else to at least try and point that out.

[ichkeria]

I cannot think of anything more pointless than trying to compare Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan. Different eras, different types of people, different everything. I doubt one can take much Trump says seriously.
He's either a hopeless bigot who really believes all the nonsense he spouts, or a shallow chancer who'll say anything to get himself noticed.
Either way, it doesn't seem like a very attractive proposition.

[Gromit]

We've been here before.
The US elected Hopalong so it is not inconceivable that they could elect 'The Apprentice' star. We do not get a vote, so it is beyond our ability to do anything about it.
Though it is my observation that the people most concerned about Trump becoming the Republic nomination are not the Deomocrats, but the Republican Party's higher echelons. Perhaps they are frightened that the public will tell them 'You're Fired!'.

[Svejk]

Lefty's are great supporters of democracy and free speech.
When it goes their way, natch.

[Cloverjo]

Sp, regarding Trump and his views on his daughter - I'm surprised she still speaks to him. His behaviour is well beyond gross, I agree. Why are people still voting for this hideous man?

[Gromit]

Cloverjo.

Because inbred is quite normal in many of Trump's core States?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Jim and quota filler: two fine brains united in a common cause - a marriage made in heaven.

[vetuste_ennemi]

bend over laughing. not you, jim.

[Cloverjo]

What are you laughing at or about, ventuste?

[jim360]

Yeah, I have no idea either.