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I think that a person can be all of those things and still be able to speak in complete sentences which have some logical connection between them.

 

Corroborated by a discussion with a high school classmate now serving as a deputy chief of mission for us in an African nation.

But, yeah, LOL. All is well. Those fingers in your ears up to the knuckle yet?

 

NYT: Papadopoulos told Australian diplomat Russia had Clinton dirt - CNNPolitics

He got that information from this source, who has since disappeared.

Academic at heart of Clinton 'dirt' claim vanishes - CNNPolitics

 

Without looking, I’d lay money that female pastor is a co-pastor with her husband.

 

Trump may have great advisors. But he doesn't listen to them. A power outage hits Faux News studios and he won't know what to do.

 

Trump Golf Count

 

Which points to 4 possibilities

A. Hillary Clinton is more despised than any living American, to lose an election to trump

B. 62,979,636 Americans are dumber than trump

C. Russia gets it done

D. All of the above

 

Trump's increasing incoherence is the subject, not the election results.

As to your four possibilities, I'd take D, with some combination of the above. I think that there are a number of people who voted against Hillary, but not because they despised her. No matter what a policy wonk she is, she simply has none of the attributes of a successful politician. Even if you basically agree with her positions, it is nearly impossible to warm to her as a part of her intended audience.

 

E. Aging white Americans are feeling a depressed existential angst over the loss of the unspoken lie that they were the most important people in the world because God specially chose them, as opposed to the accidents of fate and the inheritance of their pillaging and genocidal ancestors, and are lashing out with intentional infliction of harm upon society.

 

That assessment is hard to square with her receiving the second most votes for president of any candidate in history.

 

Note that I was in the process of rewriting that more clearly when you replied.

I think that it was a combination of factors, and also that Comey's late letter somehow didn't appear in heyabbott's list of causes.