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goddamnedfrank5/05/2016 7:24:47 pm PDT

re: #73 Targetpractice

The other half to that is that Trump benefits from the self-delusion that is a trademark of the GOP base, the ability to convince themselves that they’re not racists/misogynists/bigots/etc despite all the evidence to the contrary. So to attack Trump as a racist means to imply that his supporters are racists by association and that does little but piss them off. Especially when the party’s views and policies are not just nicer ways of expressing the same ideas that Trump is saying aloud.

Right, which is why the strategy that worked so well for him in the primaries is cancer in a general election. There is absolutely no incentive for Hillary or other Democrats to soft peddle the message, they can unload on Trump and all Republicans by association, using readily available facts and Trump’s own statements to keep him and the entire party painted firmly into that corner.

The reason that so many primary forecasters called Trump’s nomination wrong was because they refused to believe the polls, which accurately reflected his support within the GOP all along. The general election polls aren’t lying either, the man is absolutely toxic outside of the GOP voting base.