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I think there are like 1,000 "but for" reasons that she lost and Trump won and that's one of them.

 

(R)ide or die is the sole belief.

 

I agree with this. He earned a big following early on in part because he's famous and idiots thought it was cool to vote for a famous guy from teevee, but also because he offered simple policy prescriptions - like the wall - that made idiots believe he had figured out America and, as they always suspected, it was really, really easy. Not like them multiplication tables back in the fourth grade.

 

That sounds like you are insulting their intelligence.

 

Is this supposed to be a bad thing?

But the roots of Bannon’s antipathy for the Speaker and his ilk predates this election cycle — in 2014, Trump’s chief strategist told his fellow religious conservatives that “the tea party’s biggest fight is not with the left,” but rather with “the Republican establishment, which is really a collection of crony capitalists.”

Republicans get criticized for being crony capitalists. We get criticized for supporting the party, no matter what they do.

Bannon not only took the party on, he helped to win the presidency while doing it. That's remarkable.

Republicans won the WH the same year they were basically fighting a civil war within the party.

Part of the reason why parties don't usually resolve these kinds of problems is because they fear the damage it will do in the short term. The Dems are facing this reality today.

Ad for Ryan, the Republican majority in the House was about to vote to allow earmarks once again, but Ryan put a halt to this at the last moment.

Does he do this if Trump doesn't win? I doubt it.

Trump and Ryan can be good influences on each other.

 

Yeah, I can get behind that.

Meh. On the "this is all really easy" front, I've long felt there's plenty of that going around.

 

People who think that policy is simple deserve to have their intelligence insulted.

 

Come on, now. Are you telling me that we can't just "tax the 1 percent" and solve everything?

 

We can totally fix Medicare and Social Security and the ACA with a few tweaks.

 

Voters in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin, who voted for Obama -- sometimes twice -- rejected Clinton, and voted for Trump.

These are Democrats. Many of them were women.

It's silly to act like "white men" won't vote for a woman.

Republicans have elected women to every office in the nation, other than President, in the last decade. It's not the gender. It's the person, and the policies that contributed to Clinton's loss.

 

You are responding to an imaginary post.

 

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