re: #545 HappyWarrior

I don’t think you’re getting me. I know the what. What I’m distressed about is the how. In a truly ideal world, Trump is beaten in a landslide, hell in a truly ideal world, Trump gets laughed out of the GOP primaries as a creepy son of a bitch who offers nothing but empty bullshit.

trump lost by millions of votes, just in the wrong places

as for the GOP, they were so moribund at that point, he was able to game them

none of the other hack candidates wanted to attack him because they all assumed he would flame out and they wanted to be in a position to pick up his supporters

he played that out until he had enough delegates lined up