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To be fair, I think that the 3500 number includes Trump suing other people as well as being sued. It still boggles the mind.

 

So if you fixed espresso machines in Trump's building or casino or whatever and he refused to pay you, would you be OK with it?

 

What makes you think that?

 

You seem to be dismissing the lawsuits as frivolous. How many of the 3,500 lawsuits does Trump need to lose before it reflects poorly on him for not paying people for their work?

 

How many did he lose?

 

I don't recall where I read it, but Trump had said he had won something like 90 percent of them. Which is a good number, until you realize he's lost about 350 lawsuits.

UPDATE:

Actually, I found the link:

Donald Trump brags about his lawsuit record after USA Today scrutinizes 'unprecedented' legal skirmishes

He said he won 450 and lost 38.

Which again, sounds nice, until you realize he's lost 38 lawsuits.

 

I'm not really talking about the candidates, I'm talking about the parties and their challenges vis-a-vis the White House (which is what I thought you were getting at earlier). However you would break it down, the Democrats in '68 were a weird coalition of lots of different types (still are, actually). The war, and accompanying events, stressed the ties that bound them to the degree that it was not at all unreasonable to think they were done for as far as national elections were concerned. The McGovern debacle four years later was even more evidence in favor of that theory. But for RMN's pathologies manifesting into actual (and discovered) criminal acts, we might never have had a Carter (and while you could argue, therefore, that we might never have had a Reagan, I'm not so sure I'd buy that).

One thing that has been kind of lost to history is how much the turmoil of '68 changed, for a time, the nominating process for the Democrats. The McGovern commission seized the moment to champion/enact several major changes to that process, but many of those have faded away (his '72 shellacking didn't help in that regard). In some ways, the Democrats' nominating process has reverted to its pre-1968 form, although the establishment that buttresses the establishment candidate can lay far lower for far longer than it could back then. There would never have been a McGovern candidacy had there been superdelegates back then.

I could definitely see the GOP, in response to the drubbing Trump is all but certain to take, move to more closed primaries (and fewer winner-take-alls) to prevent someone like him again.

 

I thought it was 3,500 lawsuits. You're telling me he lost only 38. That sounds closer to 1%.

 

And for the Trump team opposition research team, it's like Christmas, New Year's, Mardi Gras and the 4th of July all in one morning.

 

I'm assuming a lot of them were settled. Only a small percentage of lawsuits actually go to trial.

 

What's your assumption based on? How many were dismissed or dropped?

 

BTW, I love that Baron linked to the Business Insider story, instead of the original USA Today story, which was widely discussed in the media.