re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They did not want to alienate Trump voters in the hopes of picking them up after he self-destructed. Except that Trump was campaigning as the anti-politician and complete outsider, which made him immune to gaffes that would have wrecked the campaign or even the career of any other politician.

Which is much easier when no one attacks him for it. So the rest of the field all sat back and didn’t attack him, figuring that someone else would do it and they would benefit. They could have cooperated, or agreed on one candidate to take the heat, but nope. Gee, who would have thought that purely selfish behavior by everyone would result in catastrophic outcomes.