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There’s a cult of personality surrounding Trump that’s almost bloodthirsty. I agree with the Muslim ban and waterboarding. I agree with many of his positions but I distrust his vicious attacks on his opponents. He is almost merciless. He is also unprincipled, really. I simply don’t trust him to aspire to make America great like a shining city on a hill. I want America to defend itself and become strong again but it needs to be an example and beacon of freedom. I really don’t think Trump gets that.

"I want America to defend itself and become strong again but it needs to be an example and beacon of freedom.

Few people grok how late in the day it really is. Everything that ever made this country great will be dust and ashes soon if we don't start enforcing our borders.

Any damage Trump might do would be repairable. IMHO, some of it is absolutely necessary. He's a walking litmus test for principle. I may not like his style, but the fact that someone with an ego that huge, and that much to lose, is willing to stake his precious public image and personal fortune to the dirt in defense of US sovereignty and the Bill of Rights earns my respect. He also connects with millennials in a way that none of the other candidates ever could.

The party had the option of supporting good men like Tancredo and Hunter. They made well-reasoned principled arguments and they lost. Some of "our side" participated gleefully in their demise.

The GOPe have been running good men out of DC for a long time, then claiming they can't get anything done up on the Hill due to apathy and momentum. All the while bathing themselves in baksheesh they took in exchange for destroying every last vestige of the party Eisenhower and Reagan built. The only way that adheres to principle is if "principled" is now newspeak for 'pusillanimous'.

"There's a cult of personality surrounding Trump that's almost bloodthirsty. I agree with the Muslim ban and waterboarding. I agree with many of his positions but I distrust his vicious attacks on his opponents. He is almost merciless. He is also unprincipled, really."

This isn't your Grandma's Democrat Party. Your Grandma's Democrat Party wasn't fully entrenched in the media, in the federal unionized mandarin corps, in the Sec8/SSI/WIC/TANF/SNAP/Bobophone ghettos.

You don't like the fight, then look away.

Thereâ€™s a cult of personality surrounding Trump thatâ€™s almost bloodthirsty. I agree with the Muslim ban and waterboarding. I agree with many of his positions but I distrust his vicious attacks on his opponents. He is almost merciless. He is also unprincipled, really. I simply donâ€™t trust him to aspire to make America great like a shining city on a hill. I want America to defend itself and become strong again but it needs to be an example and beacon of freedom. I really donâ€™t think Trump gets that.

That’s all well and good, but we can’t be a beacon of freedom if our economy sinks into collapse. We will neither be shining, nor strong, nor free. We are in DEBT, major, massive, excruciating debt, in case you haven’t noticed. Trump may have an effect on that ...or at least he is our last hope to turn it around.

And THAT is what I think folks like yourself maybe do not get. I mean, you really don’t get that. The country is on life support ...we just turned the corner to 19 tril.

The attacks always seem to be with a wink and a grin to me. Wasn’t Trump open to considering Cruz as VP just a few days ago ? Always liked the guy, always gotten along well, just a sad thing that happened in Iowa which I’m over now...Erratic and opportunistic maybe but I don’t get a sense of cruelty or mercilessness. Although obviously no one gets to his position in life without doing everything possible to win.

Thereâ€™s a cult of personality surrounding Trump thatâ€™s almost bloodthirsty.

Not almost, it is bloodthirsty.

The anger is so great that people don't care if the guy they back has no history as a conservative, can't even define what a conservative is, has no idea what conservative principals are, as long as he insults, denigrates, mocks, and belittles those they don't agree with. It doesn't matter if Trump believes in govt taking from one person to benefit another person (eminent domain), or thinks some form of socialized medicine is okay, or believes in touchback amnesty, as long as he insults everyone and keeps saying vague phrases (just like obama did) his followers will support him.

Supporting your candidate = Cult of personality

Cruz supporters need to get some new material. Its a meme, like calling a political figure Hitler. A substitute for thinking. When a Cruz supporter here taunts people with the terms Trumpettes or Trumpsters, they sound like a buffon.