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Donald Trump for President Thread

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http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politi...he-election-with-this-brilliant-report-video/

RACHEL MADDOW MAY HAVE JUST COST TRUMP THE ELECTION WITH THIS BRILLIANT REPORT (VIDEO)



Rachel Maddow has a huge issue with Trump’s glorification of violence against protesters and people just he doesn’t like (black people) at his rallies. He has been advocating for violence against them for weeks now, if not months, and recently it has hit a boiling point.

Rachel created a timeline of Trump talking about how he “missed the old days” when you could get violent with protesters, which led into him advocating for his supporters to physically assault protesters while he promised to defend them in court if charged with a crime. It’s a direct line from point A to B, and it runs directly out of Trump’s big mouth.

This has been a DELIBERATE action by Trump. He knows he did this, and now he is LYING about it to everyone everywhere because it has finally gotten out of hand.

The video is damning. It could literally be used as evidence in court for inciting a riot. Protesters could arguably start suing Trump for ordering people to commit physical violence and injury on them, and all they’d need is this video to prove their case. It’s so disgustingly offensive words don’t adequately describe it.
 
Best explaination I have read.
*warning...very long article.

http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11127424/trump-authoritarianism

"The American media, over the past year, has been trying to work out something of a mystery: Why is the Republican electorate supporting a far-right, orange-toned populist with no real political experience, who espouses extreme and often bizarre views? How has Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, suddenly become so popular?

What's made Trump's rise even more puzzling is that his support seems to cross demographic lines — education, income, age, even religiosity — that usually demarcate candidates. And whereas most Republican candidates might draw strong support from just one segment of the party base, such as Southern evangelicals or coastal moderates, Trump currently does surprisingly well from the Gulf Coast of Florida to the towns of upstate New York, and he won a resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses.

Perhaps strangest of all, it wasn't just Trump but his supporters who seemed to have come out of nowhere, suddenly expressing, in large numbers, ideas far more extreme than anything that has risen to such popularity in recent memory. In South Carolina, a CBS News exit poll found that 75 percent of Republican voters supported banning Muslims from the United States. A PPP poll found that a third of Trump voters support banning gays and lesbians from the country. Twenty percent said Lincoln shouldn't have freed the slaves.

Last September, a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst named Matthew MacWilliams realized that his dissertation research might hold the answer to not just one but all three of these mysteries.

MacWilliams studies authoritarianism — not actual dictators, but rather a psychological profile of individual voters that is characterized by a desire for order and a fear of outsiders. People who score high in authoritarianism, when they feel threatened, look for strong leaders who promise to take whatever action necessary to protect them from outsiders and prevent the changes they fear.

So MacWilliams naturally wondered if authoritarianism might correlate with support for Trump.

He polled a large sample of likely voters, looking for correlations between support for Trump and views that align with authoritarianism. What he found was astonishing: Not only did authoritarianism correlate, but it seemed to predict support for Trump more reliably than virtually any other indicator. He later repeated the same poll in South Carolina, shortly before the primary there, and found the same results, which he published in Vox:..."
 

Its honestly worrying that Trump may get into a position of power.

Not half as worrying as the thought that Ted Cruz might. Trump as President would achieve nothing, because he has zero support in Congress - but President Ted Cruz on the other hand would have both houses, a grateful Republican establishment (having seen off the Donald and Hilary) and the donors all on side. Given what he promises to do it would be a nightmare.
 

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