Posted on 09/17/2016 7:12:38 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A month ago, Donald Trump stood seven points back of Hillary Clinton in the polls. State-by-state projections gave Clinton as much as two-thirds of the electoral college. Today, an average of recent surveys puts Trump just one point behind; the electoral college is similarly up for grabs.
What once seemed impossible — that Trump could win — is now a very real possibility: roughly two in five, according to the oddsmakers. We are staring into the abyss of a Trump presidency, and all that that would represent, for America and the world.
That it is even close is something of a calamity, a victory for all that is dark and barbaric in the American character. A narrow Trump loss — at this point the most likely result — would confirm his malign influence in Republican circles, opening the party to years of debilitating internal conflict. Perhaps Trumpism would not survive him; perhaps it would.
The election is still weeks away, of course, and much can happen between now and then. But it’s never too early to start laying blame.
Who should we fault for this disaster? Should we blame his enablers in the Republican party? But which ones? The aging opportunists like Newt Gingrich or Rudy Giuliani, who see in Trump their last chance at power and can’t be bothered to worry about what he represents? Or the equivocators, the odds-checkers, once-respected figures like Paul Ryan or Marco Rubio, who know that Trump is the death of everything they claim to care about but sign on anyway, though only after weeks of contemptible public agonizing — as if the choice were truly difficult? As if they were not weak men following their desires, but good men trying to do right? As if their eventual decision were ever in doubt?
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...
Too bad. Democrats trusted a leadership who must be under the blackmailing influence of the Clintons.
There is no other explanation for the Superdelegates nominating such a shallow, dishonest, weak, corrupted, decrepit, uninspiring, and evil person.
Woohooooo! I'm a victim class! Woohooooo!!!!!! Give my moneh! Moneh moneh moneh!
The hysteria on the Left of a Trump presidency is both delicious and exasperating. We’ve spent eight years being forced to bow down to a Muslim communist or be called “racist” if we objected and, frankly, we’re sick of it. Nothing Trump does to the Left is going to be half as sickening as the tripe patriotic conservatism have had to swallow from the Shroom Gang and the Clinton Racketeers.
Massive unemployment? Check.
Rioting in the streets? Check.
Muslim terrorism expanded at home and abroad? Check.
Socialist health care? Check.
Unimpeded massive immigration? Check.
Using the Justice Department to exonerate wrongdoing? Check.
Using the IRS to persecute political enemies? Check.
Using the EPA to go after energy producers? Check.
Gay Marriage? Check.
Forcing transgender restrooms? Check.
Forcing churches to pay for abortions? Check.
What, in our wildest dreams, could Trump do to this country that is worse than what Obama and his crowd has made us endure?
He should be celebrating, when Trump wins they are going to have more liberals in Canada.
These young communist wannabes are a bunch of drama queens. Abyss my ass.
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes.
This pearl clutching, fainting couch screed could have been written in 1979 - Reagan was going to blow up the world with a nuclear war - LOL
They did a nice job of covering the bolts in his neck!
May I use that?
I was just in the grocery store this morning and saw a similar headline blaring from the Globe and Mail. Then later, I saw the National Enquirer headlining an allegation that Bill Clinton groped a woman while on board the campaign jet and Hillary apparently did or said nothing about it.
Feels kind of strange to put more trust and belief into what I saw concerning the National Enquirer story as opposed to the Globe and Mail or in this case the National Post.
It's come.
Yes, the same people threw a lot of the same crap at Ronald Reagan - stupid, cowboy, played with the facts, tolerated right wing extremists, nonexistent ties to the Klan and Birchers, too old (how’s that ring with Hillary who seems to have perhaps 1/10 of the energy and vitality of Trump), a real danger on the world stage because he wasn’t a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (i.e, he will stand up for American interests) and he didn’t belong to the same country clubs as “good” (i.e., ineffectual) Republicans like the Bushes and Fords). They have nice things to say about Reagan now, but only because: 1) he is dead and no longer a threat; 2) they build a false contrast with Trump; and 3) few can deny he had one of the three most successful presidencies of the 20th century. Boo hoo, Mr. national Post columnist, write about the young fool that is running your country into the ground and BTW whose son is he, anyway, Pierre Trudeau’s or Mick Jagger’s??
actually “believe” (sorry)
Ahhh, shivering with Antici....pation...
Well said.
How can you demonize one who follows, religiously, the Chief Demon? What absurdity! muslims kill innocents in a grotesque manner by the thousands and this guy wants to criticize someone for words spoken against such behavior? How in God's name can you defend what you have written, Andrew?
Northern Compost
Andrew Coyne is such a hate-filled bigot, it’s a wonder that he doesn’t simply dissolve in his own bile, venom, and puke into a writhing mass of crapulence.
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